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2006-03-26 Thread Paddy
In the style of the Pepsi 'Lip smakin' add of the 70's... In-dentin easy-readin object-orientin motivatin good buzzin literate programmin' abstractin fast runnin ever givin dynamic PYTHON! - I know, too much free time can be harmful ;-) - Pad. -- http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

2005-03-27 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Kent Johnson wrote: >> Wikiquote is nice. I missed it because I googled for Mark Twain and parts of >> the Churchill quote -- for that I'm now convinced it is as wikiquote gives >> a slightly longer excerpt and the date and location of the speech (November >> 11, 1947, in the House of Commons). >

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

2005-03-26 Thread Peter Otten
Kent Johnson wrote: > Interesting that in the quote on wikiquote, Churchill indicates that the > sentiment is not original with him: > "Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government > except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." > > Note the "it

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

2005-03-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Peter Otten wrote: Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible >> programming language, except for all the others." Google thinks it's Winston Churchill as well. I did come across a quote wiki: http://www.wikiquote.org/ Wikiquote is nice. I misse

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

2005-03-26 Thread Peter Otten
Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible > >> programming language, except for all the others." > Google thinks it's Winston Churchill as well. I did come across a quote > wiki: > > http://www.wikiquote.org/ > > None of the quotes attrib

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

2005-03-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
>> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible >> programming language, except for all the others." Peter> I've been trying to establish that a while ago, but would Peter> attribute it to Winston Churchill -- so I'm a little confused Peter> now. Google thinks i

Re: Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

2005-03-26 Thread Kent Johnson
Peter Otten wrote: Tim Roberts wrote: Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible programming language, except for all the others." I've been trying to establish that a while ago, but would attribute it to Winston Churchill -- so I'm a little confused now. Can you provide the text w

Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

2005-03-26 Thread Peter Otten
gt;> to go and use an other language, although I keeping looking at >>> the other languages. >> >>I think the operational definition of a "zealot" is someone who thinks >>what they have is absolutely perfect, and refuses to examine the >>alternatives. >&