Python Developer Survey: Python 3 usage overtakes Python 2 usage

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Sat Mar 31 10:31:41 EDT 2018


On Saturday 31 March 2018 10:16:13 Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 6:29 AM, Rick Johnson
>
> <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday, March 30, 2018 at 8:59:16 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> Wanna provide some competing information showing that other
> >> languages are more used?
> >
> > Chris, here is how debate works:
> >
> >     PersonA asserts X.
> >
> >     PersonB demands evidence for X.
> >
> >     PersonA either provides evidence for X, or X is rejected as
> >     hooey.
>
>     PersonB provides evidence fox X.
>
>     PersonA asserts that that evidence doesn't count because "it's
> nothin' but hype".
>
>     PersonC provides a different source of numbers supporting X.
>
>     PersonA asserts that those numbers don't count either because most
> of them are trolls or sock puppets.
>
>     PersonD asks if PersonA has any of their own evidence to provide.
>
>     PersonA snarkily responds that they don't need to provide evidence
> because they didn't make the assertion, apparently oblivious to the
> fact that they've actually made several assertions of their own over
> the course of this.
>
> Do I have this right? This is how I understand debate works from
> following this thread. I see the same pattern on the Flat-Earth
> threads, so I think I have it right.

Close enough for the girls I go with. 


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