Python is not [yet] Considered Harmful

[L.S.Lamey]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:27:27 -0800 (PST), mike420 at ziplip.com wrote:

>Hannu Kankaanp?? wrote:
>
>> mike420 at ziplip.com wrote in message
>> news:<F5PTFQP4LSMMFZJQOCN2KCOHLUACIBHXMMEJCJEO at ziplip.com>...
>>> It was an honest mistake, not a troll! Still, I think it should
>>> be [1, 2, 3] instead of [3, 3, 3]
>> 
>> I don't think you understand what a troll is. Troll is someone
>> who posts any of the following:
>> 
>> 1. "Python is Considered Harmful" (given it's highly readable syntax,
>> great libraries and high dynamicity, I can't see how a single
>> feature could make Python 'harmful'. The title could've just been
>> "Unexpected behaviour of closures inside list comprehensions")
>> 
>> 2. "I present to you the final and ultimate proof of Python's
>> brain-damage" (again, a needless attack.. which turned against
>> yourself though)
>> 
>> 3. "All this Python bashing is starting to feel like mocking
>> a retarded child..." (this doesn't need explanation, I hope)
>
>This is circular logic. Since no one else yet wrote any of
>the above, what you are saying is "you are a troll, because troll
>is you". I don't think you know what troll means, so you use it
>like an insult ("Boo, you criticized my pet computer language, you
>are a troll")
>
>Nevertheless, let's ask the experts. If only 3 (three!) people 
>from alt.troll say that writing
>
><message-id:D5ODMGKEL3JQLZOFIJAGKINUHSIEBVOLPZKLOPNS at ziplip.com>
>
>while believing that Python does something  very nasty, or, say,
>
><message-id:FTB2H3EKMGCKEAGFMAPUH4MJIBMHGNMOD5CLJSKP at ziplip.com>
>
>(which turned into an interesting discussion, by the way!) makes 
>one a troll, then I'll stop :-(
>
>{F-up2 alt.troll only is OK. I never read that newsgroup, but I'll
>check the responses (and who they are from, if negative) in a 
>few days}
There are no troll, there is no group called alt.troll

Pleeze stop e mailing this to me.