Promoting Python

[Mark Lawrence]

On 06/04/2016 15:34, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at 10:25:13 AM UTC-4, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 06/04/2016 14:54, BartC wrote:
>>> On 06/04/2016 12:46, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>>> BartC <bc at freeuk.com>:
>>>
>>>>> It'll cope with ordinary coding as well, although such programs seem
>>>>> to be frowned upon here; they are not 'Pythonic'.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder what is left of Python after your list of exclusions.
>>>
>>> There are plenty of features that /I/ consider must-have, which Python
>>> doesn't have. It has to emulate them, unsatisfactorily, with variables
>>> or classes or functions, or do without.
>>
>> Please list all these features.  Precisely what is unsatisfactory about
>> the emulation?  Please state why you're still here if Python is such a
>> poorly designed language that it doesn't fit your needs.  Or is it
>> simply that your mindset cannot get to grips with something that is
>> different to that you've previously used?
>
> No, please, let's not ask BartC to list these features.  We've already
> well established Bart's point of view, let's not revisit this debate.
> He prefers very different languages than Python.  We get it.  We don't
> have to try to convince him to like Python, it's been tried, it doesn't
> work.
>
> --Ned.
>

So why isn't he politely told to shove off as he's not welcome on this 
Python list?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence