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

[Steve Holden]

MonkeeSage wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>>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 ;-)
> 
> 
> C'mon! No reason why a newbie should be confused by a hyper-fatugly,
> err, "hyper-fatarrow" every now and then [1]! What, are newbies totally
> dense or something?! ;))
> 
> [1] http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/25946
> 

My God, Perl 6 is going to be even less comprehensible that Perl 5, 
which was at least usable. Is »=>« really a Perl6 operator? That's too 
funny!

hoping-the-chevrons-were-emphasis-on-ly y'rs  - steve
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