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Author takes one quote from Terry Jones and miraculously transforms it into "anguish, pain, despair" from the Python community. From the other posts on that blog I get that he's trying to be funny, but this one follows TechCrunch's "trolling and creating drama for massive pageviews" style guide so slavishly that any humor intended just falls flat imo.

It's ridiculous how every time new software is released we must turn its position vis-a-vis existing similar software into some kind of soap opera.

Hey I know how we can make this even more dramatic. Async aside, Tornado is also a web framework. How about we get the developers of Django, CherryPy, TurboGears, etc to all castigate Friendfeed devs for not choosing their framework and adding easy async support?

Just because some software has overlap with others doesn't mean we all have to automatically pick sides. I love Twisted. I look forward to building something with Tornado. I am eager to see dlsspy's efforts at interop between them come to fruition.

At the end of the day, there is new, well-documented free software available for Python. The rest is up to the community.



FWIW, I tried to write a satire by using only real quotes, and making nothing up (because I find the whole affair completely ridiculous by itself.)

Judging by the comments left on the blog, I guess I failed.


HN isn't really into satire, unless it involves Erlang.


Aw, sorry. I didn't realise it was satire. I think I need my satire to smack me in the face before I notice it.


I thought it was hilarious.




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