On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>wrote:

> Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cedric Sodhi <man...@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > > IF YOU THINK YOU MUST REPLY SOMETHING WITTY, ITERATE THAT THIS HAD
> > > BEEN DISCUSSED BEFORE, REPLY THAT "IT'S SIMPLY NOT GO'NNA HAPPEN",
> > > THAT "WHO DOESN'T LIKE IT IS FREE TO CHOOSE ANOTHER LANGUAGE" OR
> > > SOMETHING SIMILAR, JUST DON'T.
> >
> > Every single response in this thread so far has ignored this request.
>
> The request was completely unreasonable. Cedric does not get to
> unilaterally set restrictions on who and how people respond to a screed
> in a public forum.
>

Oh, of course. I was just playing along. But my real point was to berate
the community for responding at all to such an obvious trolling post.


>  > the rest I have to say about the topic would violate the above
> > request.
>
> You have my permission to violate the above request. That should have at
> least as much authority as the request itself, so you are hereby
> empowered to respond as you like.
>

It would be utterly redundant. He said it all in his all-caps message.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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