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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Python education survey
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:02:15 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2012-01-01, Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps@web.de> wrote:
> On 01.01.2012 03:36, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2011-12-31, Alexander Kapps<alex.kapps@web.de>  wrote:
>>> On 31.12.2011 19:23, Roy Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Why do I waste my time reading your pretentious self-important nonsense?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://xkcd.com/386/
>>>>>
>>>>> ;)
>>>>
>>>> Why ROFLMAO when double-plus funny works just as well?
>>>
>>> xkcd/386 has been the excuse for replying to RR for ages and I still
>>> don't understand why he gets that much advertence. Charity? Sympathy
>>> for the lone and broken?
>>
>> Sadly, RR's post are often (in the supposed words of Wolfgang Pauli)
>> "not even wrong".
>
> I'm sure, RR is now jumping up high in rapture for being compared to 
> high-profile scientist geniuses.

I'm not comparing RR to Pauli.  I'm quoting somethin Pauli said when
criticising something that was so confusing and ill conceived that "it
wasn't even wrong".

-- 
Grant