help!!!

[Robert Kern]

On 10/11/10 11:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com
> <mailto:robert.kern at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 10/11/10 8:44 AM, Jason Swails wrote:
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>         On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Andreas Waldenburger
>         <usenot at geekmail.invalid>
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>             On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:51:46 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>         <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
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>          > In message <mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org
>         <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org>
>         <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org
>         <mailto:mailman.1417.1286438621.29448.python-list at python.org>>>,
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>          > Emile van Sebille wrote:
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>          > > Oh come now -- isn't being lazy a primary programmer's attribute?
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>          > I wonder if that’s why more men are good at it than women...
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>             You may want to think about whether this really was your intended
>             meaning.
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>         Sure it was -- men are lazy; programmers are primarily lazy; explains why
>         programmers are predominantly men (for the time being, at least).  Made
>         perfect
>         sense to me.
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>     That's quite a different statement than "men are more good at it than women".
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> Since when have programmers argued semantics/syntax?

It's *all* we argue about. That, and tabs vs. spaces.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco