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Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*!

From KO <KO@example.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*!
Date 2014-11-14 08:25 +0000
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On 2014-11-13, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On the other hand, if the author is not GvR, then he is most
> likely someone of great importance within the community.


As much as I love Python, I hate the amount of appeal to authority
that is present in the Python community.
Ok, GvR created Python, great.
He is extremely smart and knowledgable, no doubt.
But that doesn't make him right on everything.
That doesn't mean his opinion on something makes it True or False.

Gooosh.


-- 
ko

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A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*! Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2014-11-13 15:11 -0800
  Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-14 10:35 +1100
  Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*! Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-13 19:34 -0500
    Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-15 23:28 +1100
      Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*! Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-15 15:12 -0500
  Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*! KO <KO@example.org> - 2014-11-14 08:25 +0000
    Re: A Freudian slip of *EPIC PROPORTIONS*! wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-11-14 01:57 -0800

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