[Python-ideas] [off-topic] Insults, English, and Aspergers

[Mark Lawrence]

On 31/01/2014 16:28, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 07:45 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>>> On 01/30/2014 10:16 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Core dev time could be used more effectively if they weren't
>>>>>> sidetracked
>>>>>> by non-issues e.g. blithering idiots who keep reopening issues on
>>>>>> the bug
>>>>>>  tracker.  I won't mention any names.
>>>>
>>>> Who says I was getting at Anotoly?  Unless the English language has
>>>> changed
>>>> without my knowledge, you'll find that "idiots" and "names" are
>>>> plural and
>>>> not singular.
>>
>> Asperger Syndrome sufferers are always honest. [...]  We also take things
>>  literally and write things literally.  So your "obvious to everyone what
>> you were saying" to me is clearly incorrect.  Please withdraw the
>> comment.
>
> What a load of crap.
>
> If you care to discuss this further, mail me off-list and stop wasting
> developer time.
>

Your opinion, clearly not mine.  Further I don't discuss anything that 
starts on a Python mailing list with people offline as I don't believe 
in discussing things behind other people's backs.

As for wasting developer time how much has been wasted by various people 
who've routinely insulted Python and by continuance its developers, and 
yet they're still allowed to spew their nonsense and get away with it? 
Yet again we're into the dual standards that annoy me so much, yet for 
speaking my mind I'm the one in the wrong.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence