Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Lumberjack]

pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) wrote:
> For me, sarcasm and strong wording are not welcome.  There are ways to
> disagree, and even disagree much, while staying friendly.

No doubt you would stay friendly with someone who dislikes the color of the 
electrical wire strung through the walls of your house and seriously 
proposes (against your wishes) to level your house and rebuild it simply to 
put in different colored wiring. And you are paying for all this, not them. 
That is either being very gentlemanly or very stupid. However, I see no 
reason follow your misguided attempt at suffering fools gladly.

>  Even a big
> accumulation of ironic statements are not going to make the shadow of a
> good argument.  I prefer intelligent discussions between nice people.

Well then, what do you think of the use of the "experimental method" to 
establish proof? Perhaps you should go and change the language as proposed 
and see where it takes you.