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Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.
Date 2011-02-02 22:51 +0000
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On 2011-01-31, rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> wrote:

> IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.
> -- by Rick Johnson

RR's postings are generally tossed out by my score file, but after
seeing so many replies, my morbid curiousity finally got the best of
me, and I read (well, mostly) RR's posting on what's wrong with IDLE.

> -- rr: disappointed and annoyed!

Shocker.

We'll take it as read that I made some joke at this point involving
one of the definitions of "idle" as meaning running your motor and not
going anywhere...

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! My uncle Murray
                                  at               conquered Egypt in 53 B.C.
                              gmail.com            And I can prove it too!!

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IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 09:39 -0800
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2011-02-01 11:06 -0500
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-02-01 05:38 -0800
    Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-02-01 07:14 -0800
    Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2011-02-01 15:27 +0100
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. Robert <sigzero@gmail.com> - 2011-02-02 16:46 -0500
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-02-02 22:51 +0000
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-02-01 11:35 -0800
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-02-01 10:54 -0500
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2011-02-03 02:29 -0800
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-02-01 04:38 -0800
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> - 2011-01-31 11:13 -0700
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-02-01 19:35 -0800
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 21:13 -0800
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. flebber <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2011-02-01 02:20 -0800
  Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation. Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2011-01-31 17:17 -0500

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