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Leave the putdowns in the Perl community, the Python world does not need them

I was shocked to see the personal insults hurled in this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....758cb9545cad4b

I have been very pleased with Python developers regardless of skill
levels in both the IRC channel as well as here - no hot attitudes. No
holier than thou put ons. I was just sinking into the comradery and
cooperative nature of this new powerful community when I saw that
thread.

Well, I hope that the fact that 99% of the Python community, from Guido
von Rossum on down continues to exemplify how a language can be good
and the people can be friendly and that the other 1% get inspired by
their positivity and switch as well...

Sep 25 '06
20 1401
Ray

MonkeeSage wrote:
Ant wrote:
Don't think so, I followed the thread along a little, and it seems to
be correct. In addition, they seem to have the ¥ character as the Perl
6 equivalent of zip(). Those crazy guys.

Yup, I don't think it was a joke either; there are several other
"hyper" operators already in pugs:
http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/src/...er/Operator.hs (see tests:
http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/t/operators/hyper.t ).
If it weren't Perl I would think of this as an April Fool's joke. Good
thing by the time Perl 6 comes out nobody'll care enough about it to
use it (in fact even if it comes out tomorrow, does anybody still
care?). So it's quite unlikely for us to encounter it in the real
world... or so I hope.


Regards,
Jordan
Oct 2 '06 #21

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