I had the same exact feelings when reading that comments here. Thanks for speaking up Erik!
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Erik Romijn <e...@erik.io> wrote: > 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 >
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