Levity and comedy, by its very nature, is at the expense of *someone*. It becomes a problem when it is levied with undue malice, in which case, I would agree with calling it out in a forum such as this.
This is not the case here. Python and Perl are historic rival languages. Most developers will see these comments for what they are - historic jabs between the communities. This is the conversation that happens, mostly in jest, when members of the language communities get together. "Your language is write only!" "Whitespace? For structure? HA!". They are not ad hominem attacks of the users, but a reference to a classic - dead - argument. I don't see (considering an objective view of the perl community, if I am honest) how this can be truly offensive to a polyglot. -----Original Message----- From: PSF-Community [mailto:psf-community-bounces+tritium-list=sdamon....@python.org] On Behalf Of Erik Romijn Sent: Monday, May 30, 2016 8:52 AM To: PSF Community <psf-community@python.org> Subject: Re: [PSF-Community] on perl programmers Hello all, I don’t mean to derail the discussion on board transparency, but I felt I could not let these particular comments go by: >> I bet even Perl programmers have good intentions! > > They are good at hiding it. In my opinion, these comments are disrespectful and not inclusive. I know how it seems fun to poke at other languages. I personally have written Perl code in the past, and strongly dislike it. However, that doesn’t mean Perl programmers have any less worth. If we make it seem as if the Python community considers Perl programmers lesser people/programmers, we are making our community unwelcome to people that have made different technology choices, or even are unable to make different choices. I assume that these comments were meant as non-malicious jokes. But that made it especially important for me to draw attention to the effects they can have. So that we can help our community be inclusive to everyone :) Erik _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community
