kirby urner wrote: >class Snake: > """triggering reflexes...""" > def __rib__(self): pass > > Having unilaterally decided that some connection between something Fuller once said about ships (was it ?)
and the fact that there is a programming language called Python which is a snake and has ribs (like a ship?) and uses double underscore syntax is so irrestibly clever that it deserves a place in the Urnian Pantheon and private language we will be subject to references to it - in this public forum - for how long??? Hoping to influence that decision: a) One of design features of the programming language named after a comedy troup, not a reptile, that it seems to me is of fundamental significance to tis success is its willingness to be outward facing, not inward - its willingness to leverage the use of generally accepted and commonly used idioms, not be overly clever, i.e be a public language, not a private language. b) Fuller only marginalized himself by resorting to private language. Clever enough poeple like myself find him unbearable to read, which is something quite different from being able to read him, were it bearable to do so. c) Urner is not Fuller. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig