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发信人: oldwatch (一条叫java的鱼◎潜心修炼待化龙), 信区: ITExpress             
标  题: Python遭到动物保护组织抗议                                             
发信站: 水木社区 (Wed Jun 25 10:58:34 2008), 站内                              
                                                                               
http://techfaux.com/2008/06/17/peta-targets-computer-programmers-with-string-of-
bizarre-protests/                                                              
                                                                               
（草译了一下）                                                                 
                                                                               
 Django，这家公司维护着一个基于Python编程语言的的web敏捷开发框架，他们可能因一次
例行的月度技术碰头会而名声远扬。                                               
                                                                               
这种技术交流会通常是很有趣的，Python开发社区的精英们在Lawrence碰面，交流他们的项
目，炫耀他们的代码。                                                           
                                                                               
如果用一个词来形容最近的一轮聚会，那就应该是“搞笑”，如果再加一个字，那就是“囧
”       

晚8点，当越来越多的IT民工开始在房间中夸夸其谈的时候，大约二三十名穿着皮大衣的女
子开始包围办公室，                                                             
                                                                               
大约8点一刻，那群女子开始脱掉她们的皮衣，并且打出标语牌                        
"要多少生命换取一件皮大衣？"                                                   
“蛇是动物，动物也是人！”                                                     
                                                                               
困惑的程序员们跑出大门看着外面发生的事情                                       
                                                                               
“这是捣的什么鬼？这太TMD的不可思义了“Jacob说，他是Django公司的执行官，他对办公
室外发生的事情目瞪口呆，”她们统统光着身子，那群妞啥都没穿！“                 
                                                                               
我尽可能装出足够大的记者派头，跑去问一个举着牌子的女人她们到底在主张什么       
                                                                               
”我们知道他们在那扇门后面干什么，他们在谋害蟒蛇(Hacking Python），我们不会对这
种野蛮行径妥协直到最后一条蛇被拯救”                                           
                                                                               
我把她们的主张转告了Python语言的发明人，Guido Van Rossum，他提出了他的疑惑，“女
人到底是什么？”         

Django, the company best known for its agile development framework that competes directly with Ruby on Rails, is perhaps known secondly for their monthly programmer get-togethers.

The parties are usually a great deal of fun, and many in the Python community in Lawrence, Kansas bring along their projects for debugging and showing off.

Fun is one word to describe what happened at last night’s hackathon.  Bizarre is another.

As more and more people started to show up after the doors were opened around 8PM, a group of roughly 25 to 30 white women began to form around the office, dressed in ubiquitous trench coats.

Then, at exactly 8:15, the women undressed from their trenchcoats and stood wearing signs reading “How many lives just for a coat?” and “Snakes are Animals, and Animals are People!”

The perplexed programmers came back outside when they saw what was happening.

“What the hell is going on?  This is fucking incredible.” Jacob Kaplan-Moss said.  Kaplan-Moss is the chief architect of Django and said nothing like this had ever happened before.  “They’re all naked, and these chicks don’t shave anything!”

I decided to put on my best investigative journalist face and asked a woman holding a sign (pictured above) what they were protesting.

“We know what they’re doing in there.  They’re hacking pythons.  It’s barbaric and we won’t leave until the last snake has been saved.”

When I asked Guido Van Rossum, the inventor of Python, what he thought of the women protesting, he had questions of his own.  “What’s a woman?” he asked.