Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

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Date	2011-09-15 18:39 +1000
Subject	Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is really what I love and hate about the internet.  It's full of
> people who argue for the sake of venting their internal frustrations.
> How many discussions comparing declarative and imperative programming
> languages have you seen on the web?

Yes, it's both normal and useful on the internet to break off
conversation to argue about a minor technicality. But it's completely
inappropriate in other contexts, to the point that it can be used for
comedy. Two characters, in the middle of a rather heated debate, stop
to discuss grammar:

"Listen - I've come to pinch her!"
"Mercy! Whom?"
"You mean who."
"Nay! It is the accusative after the verb!"

ChrisA

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Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py memilanuk <memilanuk@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 06:05 -0700
  Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2011-09-15 00:26 +0100
  Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-09-15 09:58 +1000
    Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 20:05 -0700
    Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py john <gnujohn@gmail.com> - 2011-09-15 01:01 -0700
    Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-15 18:39 +1000

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