Acrimony in c.l.p.

[Gary Duncan]

Laura Creighton wrote:
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> It is probably not a good idea to judge real programming communities
> by usenet newsgroups that refer to the same language.  This is because
> when the places become hostile and nasty, the really decent people

Hmm, Laura "BraveHeart" ,weren't you the wench who sort of sided recently
with some Rambo Scandinavian who asserted his forbears were into "rape/pillaging"
and the like :-) Tsk, tsk ...


> leave, saying 'this is a waste of my valuable time, and besides it
> hurts too much'.  Then new people do not join, because they have better
> things to do as well, even if it is taking them a heck of a lot longer
> to do them because they don't have anybody to answer their questions.
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> Absolutely everybody I have talked to about this has said that this is
> inevitable and it will happen to comp.lang.python as well.  That is why


	I've read c.l.p for a couple of years and even tho I'm not a avid
	practioner of the language, I check it regularly because to me
	the experience is like having a relaxing sauna in the company of
	refined and civilized folk :)

	Not only can one learn esoteric features of the language from
	the likes of Peters et al, there are often little gems to
	be found like a recent one ; whats an emoticon for a fart ?

		{  3<  )

	Where else could one find such information ?


	But concerning declining standards of discourse in the group,
	I guess there's no real solution. Enhance public IQ I guess.

	In my Amiga days there was comp.os.amiga (or similar), and a
	"/dev/null" type associated one, namely comp.os.amiga.advocacy.

	Most neurotics gravitated towards it and grappled therein
  	with similar whackos from the Windoze/OS9/Atari world. I
	could name names but libel laws prevent me.

  	
		
> so many of us make such a huge effort to prove these people wrong.  We
> know we have something special here.

Extra special, Laura :)

- Gary (A "black swan of trespass in an alien newsgroup" - 'Darkening Ecliptic' )

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