On Jul 31, 6:15 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 28, 12:15 pm, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 28 Jul., 06:42, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jul 27, 8:58 pm, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 27, 2:39 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Derek Martin a écrit : > > > > > > It's bad programming, but the world is full of bad programmers, and > > > > > > we > > > > > > don't always have the choice not to use their code. Isn't one of > > > > > > Python's goals to minimize opportunities for bad programming? > > > > > > Nope. That's Java's goal. Python's goals are to maximize opportunities > > > > > for good programming, which is quite different. > > > > Oh, gosh, that is so clever. What a bunch of crap. > > > > > +1 QOTW > > > > Do you realize what an insult that is to everyone else who has posted > > > here in the past week? > > > Nothing glues a community together so well as a common enemy. Or even > > better: two enemies i.e. Perl and Java in Pythons case. On the other > > hand, some enemies have to be ignored or declared to be not an enemy > > ( Ruby ), although oneself is clearly an enemy for them. The same > > antisymmetry holds for Python and Java. Java is an enemy for Python > > but Python is not worth for Java to be an enemy as long as it can be > > ignored. C++ and Java are enemies for each other. Same holds for Java > > and C#.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Help... being... sucked into... black hole... inside a... Klein... > bottle...- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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