Is there context here I'm missing? The screen shot with the legal fee leads me to believe so, but I can't sort it.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/355...
Well, I think his criticisms are pretty well-founded. He just doesn't say it in a way you would enjoy.
> 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
The invective needs to seriously get toned down, though.
Generally when you're used to something that's several orders of magnitude better, e.g. Java docs and you're then forced to work with turds after that it takes some getting used to. Sometimes you never get used to it. Come to think of it.
"Fuck the mother fucking coders in the IT industry."
Looks like he received the very thing he wished on others.
"i don't have friends because i live like platonic monk hermit for last decade"
This guy clearly needs some people skills.