* Eric Brunel (Tue, 15 May 2007 10:52:21 +0200) > On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:38:38 +0200, Duncan Booth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Recently there has been quite a bit of publicity about the One Laptop Per > > Child project. The XO laptop is just beginning rollout to children and > > provides two main programming environments: Squeak and Python. It is an > > exciting thought that that soon there will be millions of children in > > countries such as Nigeria, Brazil, Uruguay or Nepal[*] who have the > > potential to learn to program, but tragic if the Python community is too > > arrogant to consider it acceptable to use anything but English and ASCII. > > You could say the same about Python standard library and keywords then.
You're mixing apples and peaches: identifiers (variable names) are part of the user interface for the programmer and free to his diposition. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
