Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

[John Machin]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> metaperl wrote:
> > I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/d0758cb9545cad4b
>
> I see that this is a Fredrik Lundh thread.  I've felt the same way
> before, but Fredrik has been around a long time[1] and if you listen
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>
> [1] He's the author of Python's unicode support and Python 2.5's
> elementtree module.

and a very serious upgrade of the re kit plus PIL plus a book .... and
BTW: insult? OP, look at the TV news; if insult's the worst that
happens to you, burn some joss and be very grateful :-)