It's not about offense, it's about a culture that apparently believes that name-calling and language-bashing are traits of a "nice" and "personable" community.
Does 'Rube' have a negative connotation attached to it? Yes, and it's been a common insult for at least a century: http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&... Do you have any numbers to back any of…
you're by far the flamiest person here. Flamier than the person who called Ruby developers "Rubes" after claiming Python is friendly to other developers? Interesting. Python community leaders are not into bashing other…
Python is a dogmatic language. For the language, this is a good thing, helping it stay clean, simple and yet still powerful. But for the community, it breeds rabid fanboys, just like everything else that's dogmatic.
Ah, I see. So what you are tying to say is that the non-stop bashing of Perl, PHP and Ruby from Python developers should be interpreted as just a friendly "if [you don't like python], no worries." After all, one would…
the party line seems to be "this is the way we do things, if you like what you see, come on in, if not, no worries" That is absolutely not the case; Python is the anti-TMTOWTDI. The Python community is very vocal and…
It's not about offense, it's about a culture that apparently believes that name-calling and language-bashing are traits of a "nice" and "personable" community.
Does 'Rube' have a negative connotation attached to it? Yes, and it's been a common insult for at least a century: http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&... Do you have any numbers to back any of…
you're by far the flamiest person here. Flamier than the person who called Ruby developers "Rubes" after claiming Python is friendly to other developers? Interesting. Python community leaders are not into bashing other…
Python is a dogmatic language. For the language, this is a good thing, helping it stay clean, simple and yet still powerful. But for the community, it breeds rabid fanboys, just like everything else that's dogmatic.
Ah, I see. So what you are tying to say is that the non-stop bashing of Perl, PHP and Ruby from Python developers should be interpreted as just a friendly "if [you don't like python], no worries." After all, one would…
the party line seems to be "this is the way we do things, if you like what you see, come on in, if not, no worries" That is absolutely not the case; Python is the anti-TMTOWTDI. The Python community is very vocal and…