help!!!

[Jason Swails]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/11/10 11:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com
>> <mailto:robert.kern at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>        On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger
>>        <usenot at geekmail.invalid>
>>        wrote:
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>>            On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>>        <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>>
>>         > In message <
>> mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org
>>        <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org>
>>        <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org
>>        <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org>>>,
>>
>>         > Emile van Sebille wrote:
>>         >
>>         > > Oh come now -- isn't being lazy a primary programmer's
>> attribute?
>>         >
>>         > I wonder if that’s why more men are good at it than women...
>>
>>            You may want to think about whether this really was your
>> intended
>>            meaning.
>>
>>
>>        Sure it was -- men are lazy; programmers are primarily lazy;
>> explains why
>>        programmers are predominantly men (for the time being, at least).
>>  Made
>>        perfect
>>        sense to me.
>>
>>
>>    That's quite a different statement than "men are more good at it than
>> women".
>>
>>
>> Since when have programmers argued semantics/syntax?
>>
>
>
Correction: <sarcasm> Since when have programmers argued semantics/syntax?
</sarcasm>


> It's *all* we argue about. That, and tabs vs. spaces.
>

But tabs ARE spaces (specifically 3 of them), in a row ;)


>
>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
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> enigma
>  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it
> had
>  an underlying truth."
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