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Yeah, I have a feeling he might have burned a few bridges. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/355413.html https://mail.python.org/piperma

• raverbashing 12y ago
  After reading his original post (of unnecessary expletives and excessive nitpicking) can't say I feel sorry for him
  • CatMtKing 12y ago
    http://xahlee.info/perl-python/xlali_skami_cukta.html http://xahlee.info/perl-python/xlali_skami_cukta.html Well, I think his criticisms are pretty well-founded. He just doesn't say it in a way you would enjoy.
    • raverbashing 12y ago
      True, in this text there's a lot of things I agree, however, for example > If you are accustomed to Perl's semantics, the search operation is what you're looking for. > Its mentioning of Perl is irrelevant, since the majority reading that page will not have expertise with Perl regex. Are you sure? I assume a lot of python users (and the docs he's critiquing are not the latest, and may have some "old stuff") used Perl first. Perl users would be familiar with Regexes, so this is a useful piece of info Or, praising an example as good for a Python tutorial that uses the format def okaydokey(self): return "okaydokey" which is not recommended by PEP-8
  • azernik 12y ago
    Yeah, I can't either. But he does seem to have an eye for (un)readable documentation - the things he's criticizing are completely useless for a new reader. The invective needs to seriously get toned down, though.
• cognivore 12y ago
  Oh, thanks, that clears it up. It's kind of ironic that after dumping all over the intarwebs he's now trying to rely on the good graces of the intarwebs. I imagine there's enough people out there it'll work at least a little.