Convention vs. fascism

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Thu Jan 15 20:13:18 EST 2009


Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes:

> But by focusing on such a small aspect of my post (a quarter of my
> text),

It clearly was important to you, since you phrased it in highly
emotive terms (and even, by your account, had to scale the emotion
back a little). So, I don't think the proportion of
number-of-characters is relevant there.

> while ignoring the more substantial aspects

Sure, I took that one part and made a new topic from it. This is open
discussion, man. I even changed the subject field to be clear :-)

> it seems that you are giving tacit approval of precisely the
> attitude I am objecting to: that there is a One True And Correct
> Right Way to learn and/or use Python.

Nope.

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Ben Finney



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