Python is not [yet] Considered Harmful

Jonathan P. jbperez808 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 10 14:39:31 EST 2003


mike420 at ziplip.com wrote: 

> Hannu Kankaanp?? wrote:
> 
> > mike420 at ziplip.com wrote:
> >> It was an honest mistake, not a troll! Still, I think it should
> >> be [1, 2, 3] instead of [3, 3, 3]
> > 
> > I don't think you understand what a troll is. Troll is someone
> > who posts any of the following:
> > 
> > 1. "Python is Considered Harmful" (given it's highly readable syntax,
> > great libraries and high dynamicity, I can't see how a single
> > feature could make Python 'harmful'. The title could've just been
> > "Unexpected behaviour of closures inside list comprehensions")
> > 
> > 2. "I present to you the final and ultimate proof of Python's
> > brain-damage" (again, a needless attack.. which turned against
> > yourself though)
> > 
> > 3. "All this Python bashing is starting to feel like mocking
> > a retarded child..." (this doesn't need explanation, I hope)
> 
> This is circular logic. Since no one else yet wrote any of
> the above, what you are saying is "you are a troll, because troll
> is you". I don't think you know what troll means, so you use it
> like an insult ("Boo, you criticized my pet computer language, you
> are a troll")

Heh... now the troll is suffering from selective amnesia... read
what you wrote earlier again at 

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=698f09f8.0310270625.657f7f9a%40posting.google.com&rnum=35&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dmike420%2540ziplip.com%26start%3D30%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D698f09f8.0310270625.657f7f9a%2540posting.google.com%26rnum%3D35

ziplips... (which come to think of it, is something you ought to do).




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