Python Origins

[Oldayz]

On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 00:53:00 GMT, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at effbot.org> wrote:
>Oldayz wrote:
>> in other web searches you'd probably be even less lucky, while search on
>> 'history of python' came up with self-descriptive    [40]History of:
>> GreatSoftware - Python.
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>http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/GreatSoftware/HISTORY/Python ?
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>Did you follow that link?
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>Did you notice the colon in the "self-descriptive" title?
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>(It's a revision history for a page about Python, not a
>page about Python's history).

Oops.

However, after about 5 minutes of lurking on python.org,
I found this one: http://python.org/doc/essays/foreword.html.
It may be tricky to find, but as one post here said, the
original poster could have asked 'I've looked at python.org
and searched the web and I can't find anything! help!'.
In that case I'm sure nobody would be mean to him.

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>> while a question like 'guys I'm writing a paper on python,
>> can you tell me where it comes from?' shows laziness
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>Looks like you're pretty lazy yourself, but that didn't
>stop you from posting...

No, I showed that I jump to conclusions (which is pretty
bad, but nevertheless an honest mistake). I think that
explains the reaction of people in newsgroups and on
irc: when you see someone who lacks in knowledge,
you try to teach him a bit, if someone shows laziness,
most will have a hostile reaction. I've seen this alot
in linux irc channels. I personally prefer the neutral
'go read the docs' because swearing at people leads
to pointless flamewars and helping the lazy is like
trying to drink the ocean: they will keep coming back
again and again spending more of their own time than
it'd take to look it up themselves. 

I think we all do this to some extent at first (I
know I did, but after *some* research) but this is 
something you have to get over as soon as possible.

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	Andrei