was Re: Why should I switch to Python?

[Shae Erisson]

François Pinard wrote:
<snip>

> We should not see the potential for a war every time Perl is discussed,
> and be patient instead.  It looks all pretty bearable so far.  And if it
> was becoming too heavy, we could prepare pre-canned replies for the most
> questions, and even suggest a pointer to this FAQ right into the message
> footer generated for this list.  Welcoming people in person is better!
> 
> --
> François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

maybe a newsgroup bot that finds common text patterns and posts FAQtual
replies?

Seriously though, I joined the python community because perlers treated
me like a worthless newbie, and pythonistas patiently answered my
questions, no matter how clueless they were. I think that attitude is
what makes the python community so wonderful.

I wonder if the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis works within Perl and Python
also?
To me at least, Python seems written to be simple and open, Perl seems
to want to be mystical, magical, and arcane. Their communities seem to
think that way at least, so I may be overly influenced by that.

I wonder if the next step to CP4E would be online 'classes?' Emacs
allows for multiple windows on multiple displays. A friend and I have
used that to try out multi-user editing of a single document across
800km, and it works. Does anyone have other suggestions?
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