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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Posted Dec 29, 2012 19:02 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Self-fulfilling prophecy by corbet
Parent article: A proposal for "rebooted" Python asynchronous I/O support

Probably van Rossum said the quoted sentence as a joke, and my humor detector is on holidays too. It just sounded a bit harsh coming from a "benevolent dictator" to me.


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Self-fulfilling prophecy

Posted Jan 3, 2013 22:18 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

<p>You forget that this particular BDFL named his programming language after <a href="">a comedy group</a></p>

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Posted Jan 3, 2013 22:23 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

And of course this was meant to read like this:

You forget that this particular BDFL named his programming language after a comedy group

(Can we get a post editor, please? ;) )

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Posted Jan 4, 2013 11:53 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I would have very much appreciated an explicit Python mention, e.g.:
Let the discussion about the color of Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson's second shed begin!
But bikeshedding? Heresy!

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