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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python docs disappointing
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:35:52 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-11-20, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> jstnms123@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I write this to address the criticism which targets a user's lack of
>> responsibility for the real/implied/insinuated failings of the docs. 
>> As a relatively inexperienced student of programming, [...] After
>> all, I'm a lot smarter than you, and I have thankfully learned make
>> out a fool however obscurely he covers himself.
>
> I take my hat off to you, sir or madam, that is a brilliant satire of
> pretentious self-important impenetrable prose complaining about the lack of
> readability of another text.

Were it written in green ink, it would have been perfect.  ;)

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