Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!feed.xsnews.nl!border-3.ams.xsnews.nl!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:35:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:34:59 +0100 From: lipska the kat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120410 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: [newbie] Looking for a good introduction to object oriented programming with Python References: <54b916fe-9e2d-4f9e-b533-b5ecf677c8a5@a19g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <501f0e4a$0$29867$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <5020a544$0$29867$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <6-GdneHMxPM-QL3NnZ2dnUVZ8nSdnZ2d@bt.com> <502122ce$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> In-Reply-To: <502122ce$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 22 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-sZWpCsKwlEOhYEWq+hSyx0gysZ2aec9PgILJFJU4tfjK3taeRnXLiGyBWVss+pw8WUI5uSdDS2/zg9G!H/4ivFNlLrgUA9HONs26B3OV/0wofxSao1X6ubZ0+YrhfJO22sBr0mlCbfkHPXLDlrAZ3zySXrM= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2274 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26714 On 07/08/12 15:14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:19:31 +0100, lipska the kat wrote: > >> On 07/08/12 06:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > [...] >>> But what *really* gets me is not the existence of poor terminology. I >>> couldn't care less what terminology Java programmers use among >>> themselves. >> >> I'd be most grateful if you could park the whole 'This person is a 'Java >> developer so must be a moron thing' it's getting a bit wearing. > > Lipska, it's not always about you. Never thought so for a moment, good to know you can be reasonable as well as misguided ;-) lipska -- Lipska the Kat: Troll hunter, sandbox destroyer and farscape dreamer of Aeryn Sun