Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Tue Apr 30 09:24:56 EDT 2002


"Cliff Wells" <logiplexsoftware at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1020116996.21109.python-list at python.org...
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:04:25 -0700
> James J. Besemer wrote:
>
> >
> > Cliff Wells wrote:
> >
> > > Well that's a stupid statement - *your* head is in the clouds.
> >
> > Oh yeah?  Fuck you.
>
> Heh.
>

This little exchange is about as perfect a demonstration of Cliff's point as
could be made. Now, if anyone but me is still reading this thread, nobody
knows who was joking and who wasn't in the first place. The additional loss
of context certainly doesn't help, either.

sense-of-humor-failure-is-embarrassing-ly y'rs  - steve
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