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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python 3 is killing Python
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On 2014-07-18, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 1:44:20 PM UTC-5, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> Rick Johnson :

>>> Sure, IDLE is not *useless*, however, it is in fact woefully
>>> inadequate and should be embarrassing to the whole community, both in
>>> it's buggy-ness and it's poorly written source code.

>> This is beneath trolling. Redeem yourself by apologizing.
>
> Apologize for what? 

Oh dear.  Where should we start...

> For telling the truth? 

Possibly, yes.  Truth is no excuse for being rude and insulting.  I've
never used IDLE, so don't know much about it. But, I do know that a
decent, civilized person just doesn't make insulting comments like
that about somebody else's work even if it is true (which I very much
doubt).

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