Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread Gregory Ewing
John Ladasky wrote: Yeah, it's either Python or that horrifying street drug PHP. I know which one I'm choosing. Python is definitely the best language for getting high on: https://xkcd.com/353/ -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread John Ladasky
On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 9:28:09 AM UTC-7, Etienne Robillard wrote: > I would like to thank you guys sincerely for helping a lot of people to > stay clean, and focus on programming high-level stuff in Python instead > of doing some really nasty drugs. Yeah, it's either Python or that

Re: [OT] Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 3/20/18 12:08 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 7:03:11 AM UTC-5, Adriaan Renting wrote: (on the subject of the opioid epidemic) The [OT] in the subject line is right: let's not get off on a political tangent. --Ned. --

Re: [OT] Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread Rick Johnson
On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 7:03:11 AM UTC-5, Adriaan Renting wrote: (on the subject of the opioid epidemic) > That sounds more like a conspiracy theory than a real > analysis of the problem. Looking at it from here in > Europe, most of the analysis I've been able to read and > watch about

Re: [OT] Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread Larry Martell
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Adriaan Renting wrote: > > That sounds more like a conspiracy theory than a real analysis of the > problem. Follow the money. > > > Looking at it from here in Europe, most of the analysis I've been able to > read and watch about it, points to

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread Etienne Robillard
Le 2018-03-19 à 22:21, Rick Johnson a écrit : On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 6:37:21 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote: -- \ "Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss | `\ of enthusiasm." -- Winston Churchill | _o__)

[OT] Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread Adriaan Renting
That sounds more like a conspiracy theory than a real analysis of the problem. Looking at it from here in Europe, most of the analysis I've been able to read and watch about it, points to a different cause: A lack of security: People flee to drugs (alcohol, tobacco, coffee and other

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-20 Thread Alister via Python-list
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:21:04 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 6:37:21 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote: > >> -- >> \ "Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss >> | >> `\ of enthusiasm." -- Winston Churchill >> | >>

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Rick Johnson
On Monday, March 19, 2018 at 6:37:21 PM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote: > -- > \ "Success is going from one failure to the next without a loss | > `\ of enthusiasm." -- Winston Churchill | > _o__) | >

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Etienne Robillard
Le 2018-03-19 à 19:36, Ben Finney a écrit : Etienne Robillard writes: I would like to make such an experimental research/investigation on the effects of Python software programming on opioid addiction. :-) Okay. The wording of your message implied that you know this

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
Etienne Robillard writes: > I would like to make such an experimental research/investigation on > the effects of Python software programming on opioid addiction. :-) Okay. The wording of your message implied that you know this already happens now, though. How did you come to

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Etienne Robillard
Hi Ben, Thank you for your reply. I would like to make such an experimental research/investigation on the effects of Python software programming on opioid addiction. :-) Probably studying the learning of Python in people with cocaine and heroin addiction would be significant and

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
Etienne Robillard writes: > I would like to thank you guys sincerely for helping a lot of people > to stay clean, and focus on programming high-level stuff in Python > instead of doing some really nasty drugs. Thank you for the kind words. I'd love to believe the Python

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Etienne Robillard
Le 2018-03-19 à 15:21, Larry Martell a écrit : On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Etienne Robillard wrote: You guys just made me realize something very obvious. :-) I'm in the process right now of watching the excellent documentary named "Drugs Inc." on Netflix and I'm

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Rob Gaddi
On 03/19/2018 12:40 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 03/19/2018 02:05 PM, bartc wrote: I've often wondered what the guys who invented C (around 1970) must have been  smoking to have come up with some of those ideas. I dunno, but I do know that - if they were smoking something - it was rolled in

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 03/19/2018 02:05 PM, bartc wrote: > I've often wondered what the guys who invented C (around 1970) must have been  > smoking to have come up with some of those ideas. I dunno, but I do know that - if they were smoking something - it was rolled in greenbar paper ... --

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Etienne Robillard wrote: > You guys just made me realize something very obvious. :-) > > I'm in the process right now of watching the excellent documentary named > "Drugs Inc." on Netflix and I'm basically stunned and deeply concerned about >

Re: Thank you Python community!

2018-03-19 Thread bartc
On 19/03/2018 16:08, Etienne Robillard wrote: You guys just made me realize something very obvious. :-) I'm in the process right now of watching the excellent documentary named "Drugs Inc." on Netflix and I'm basically stunned and deeply concerned about the major opioid epidemic in the US.