On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:34:09 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > >> On 5/30/2011 8:32 PM, harrismh777 wrote: >> >> > Ever tried to read Beowulf in the original? Ever tried to write Ænglisc ? >> >> I have, and it is a lot further from modern American than Python 2 and 3 >> are from each other. >> > Heck... Python 2 and 3 are modern vs Shakespearian English... > Chaucer is closer to Python vs Ruby... Beowulf? Might as well be APL... > --
No, Python 2 vs 3 is more of American English vs British English. People who speak one of them work under the philosophy that "if y'all would just speak English we wouldn't have these problems" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
