The Python world tries to be polite [formerly offensive to another language]

[Robert Hicks]

Steve Holden wrote:
> Istvan Albert wrote:
> [...]
> > ps. as for the title of this post, it is ironic that you are insulting
> > another community while asking for no insults
> >
> Perhaps so, but none the less comp.lang.perl has a demonstrable history
> of newbie-flaming. Don't know what it's like now, as it's years since I
> read that group, but they used to just love the smell of crisply-toasted
> newbie in the morning ;-)
>

Funny you mention that...there was a Perl talk recently and one of the
slides said "Stop being fu***ing mean to newbies!". I ask the author of
the talk and he said he didn't actually have to read the slide but it
was effective non-the-less.

Robert