As a break from the decorator thread, NTK (www.ntk.net)
had this writeup of the Pie-Thon. It amused me.
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Perl hullabaloos
Last year, DAN SUGALSKI, lead developer of the forthcoming
Perl6 virtual machine, Parrot, bet the Python developers
that run Python faster on the fledgling VM - and the creator
of Python could throw a pie at him at the next OSCON if he
didn't. He didn't; the pie-ing was duly arranged. As
everyone knows, while Perlites are chaotic/good trickster
archetypes who love such events, Pythonistas are peaceful,
have-their-glasses-on-a-little-string types, like hobbits or
the Dutch. In the end, Guido van Rossum refused to throw the
pie, and instead offered to share it as food with the Perl
developers. Nothing, of course, could have been more
guaranteed to throw Perlsters into violent rage. An extended
period of acrimonious bargaining followed, in which the Perl
crew grew more and more insistent that their own chief
developer be humiliated, with many walking out of the
session, muttering about "all foreplay and no sex". Later,
the Perl faction took it upon themselves to pie Sugalski -
much, we are sure, to the shock of the pacifistic Pythonese,
who may well have planned that using their psychomathematics
and indented whitespace necromancy all along. (Mind
you, that didn't stop Guido finally joining in. Feel the
punctuation rising in you, Guido!)
http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000372.html
- Dan gets last laugh later in August
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