psss...I want to move from Perl to Python

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 3:57:28 PM UTC+5:30, wxjmf wrote:
>
>> Python 3.5.1 is still suffering from the same buggy
>> behaviour as in Python 3.0 .
>
> is banned
>
> whereas this is not:
>
> On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 3:01:09 AM UTC+5:30, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 6:21:21 AM UTC-6, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>> > I nearly gave up with Python at the very beginning before
>> > I realised that OO-programming is optional in Python! :-)
>> > Most tutorials I found so far makes OO mandatory.
>>
>> Just more evidence that old dogs are incapable of learning
>> new tricks. Either learn how to wield Neuroplasticity to
>> your advantage, or go curl up into a ball and wait for death
>> to come. People who are unwilling to "expanding their
>> intellectual horizons" make me sick!!!
>
>
> Not to mention endless screeds like this one:
>
> [chomp more Ranting Rick]
>
> Can someone explain the policy?

Bannings for anything other than out-and-out spam are incredibly rare
(as they should be). The main difference is: Rick posts good content
veiled by poor framing, but jmf posts the same rehashed whining about
the same microbenchmarks, the same unbacked false statements about how
Python is "mathematically incorrect", and absolutely no useful
content. I tend to skim Rick's posts looking for anything that's
actually of interest, but jmf's posts never have anything.

There are a lot of people here who post good content but phrase things
poorly. And everyone has a bad day. (Terry Reedy, I'm hoping this was
just a bad day - there were several rather caustic posts from you.
Sorry to single you out, but I can't think of anyone else recently
who's done that.) So long as there's something useful being said, the
community would be worse off for their removal.

That said, though, I would GREATLY prefer Rick to post less
provocatively. But I'm not calling for his banning any more than I'd
call for Terry's, or my own, for that matter (I've posted plenty of
off-topic or otherwise useless posts).

ChrisA