Travis B. Hartwell

"I don't mind dwarf because it is still a medically accepted term -- and generally there isn't the judgment with dwarf that is carried with midget. The Little People of America, I believe, defines a Little Person as someone who is below the height of 4'10". I'm not sure how that fits with medical definitions or anything." - Travis B. Hartwell

"As one having been on the receiving end of the word "midget" -- I'm a achondroplasiac dwarf, only 4'6" -- I can tell you that little people like myself are not looking for a reason to be perpetually offended. Whenever I've heard that word directed towards me, it's been because of hate, denigration, and ignorance. It makes me feel like less than a person. It's bad enough getting stares and comments all of the time from innocent children, when all they want to know is why I'm little. But when an adult uses a word like 'midget', I am no longer his equal." - Travis B. Hartwell

"I find the suggestion of a lint tool (yes, I use PyFlakes when I write Python) to be funny because it is basically doing many of the same checks that a compiler would do. On that note. I wish Python had something similar to Perl's "use strict" so it would check some of these things before running code." - Travis B. Hartwell

open source powershell - Travis B. Hartwell