RELEASED Python 2.4.3, release candidate 1

[Steve Holden]

Paddy wrote:
> I just Googled and found the Python-Dev thread 'About "Coverity Study
> Ranks LAMP Code Quality" '. I was heartened by the type of issues
> raised in the discussion - it leaves me content with whats
> 'under-the-hood' in Python.
> 
> You maintainers don't seem to bang your own drum, which is a good
> thing, but since I'm not a maintainer, I'd just like to roll out the
> drums (http://www.yakudo.com/) and shout
> 
> THANKS GUYS - IT'S APPRECIATED!
> 
> (boy am I gonna get it for this post :-)
> 
i presume you must have been trying to imply that your significant other 
would cause problems if they discovered you had been spending time on 
comp.lang.python.

You can see by the enormous number of posts following your up and 
complaining about your shouted thanks that nobody else is as grateful to 
the developers as you are.

[For those who read this out of context: not one single complaint was 
raised about Paddy's shouted thanks in the week following his post. This 
message should be read with irony sensors fully activated].

The thing about developers is, you tell them how wonderful they are, and 
how much you appreciate what they do, pay them large salaries and give 
them pleasant offices, then the next thing you know you have Java to 
program in and they are telling you that you have to change your style 
and do things their way.

Much better to keep them in a dark cellar and throw them the occasional 
crust of stale bread. That way they are pathetically grateful to meet 
someone who'll even consider using their code.

Keeps the power semantics right - see

   http://www.wussu.com/humour/semantic.htm

regards
  Steve
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