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Re: Do you like the current design of python.org?

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Rustom Mody wrote:

> On Friday, December 5, 2014 4:13:27 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> But most of all, I despise the menus that pop up covering what I am
>> trying to read the page just because I happened to move the mouse over a
>> button. I loathe the practice of stuffing content into menus instead of
>> using links to individual web pages. And I hold nothing but scorn for the
>> fact that the main page has a slideshow.
> 
> I thought I'd argue against this (and the general tenor of these
> complaints) Tried to click on the > in what looked like a console session
> 
> and for the last 5 minutes I am staring at
> Loading console ...
> 
> with the L in a different color...
> 
> Pretty... but not exactly what I expect in an interactive console.
> 
> Lest it seem like I am agreeing with these complaints, I'd like to say:
> Either python goes this way or the way of Fortran and Cobol.

You mean if Cobol had a shiny but disfunctional website we'd be using that 
instead of Python? That python.org is fear-driven design? 

OK, let's make an appearance on Myspace then...

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Do you like the current design of python.org? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-12-04 18:09 +0100
  Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-05 21:43 +1100
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? "Fetchinson ." <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2014-12-05 12:30 +0100
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2014-12-05 09:11 -0500
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 18:04 -0700
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-05 18:05 -0700
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-12-08 23:31 -0800
      Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-12-09 10:07 +0100
        Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-12-09 01:29 -0800
      Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-12-09 16:53 +0200
      Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? "Fetchinson ." <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2014-12-09 16:58 +0100
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-12-09 12:24 -0800
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-12-09 13:37 -0700
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? "Fetchinson ." <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2014-12-09 22:13 +0100
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? "Fetchinson ." <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2014-12-09 22:16 +0100
      Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-10 11:19 +1100
    Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-10 08:21 +1100
      Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-12-10 11:16 +1100
        Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-10 11:27 +1100
          Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-12-10 01:43 +0100
            Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-12-10 11:52 +1100
            Re: Do you like the current design of python.org? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-12-10 15:08 +1100

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