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

From: Peter Otten <__pe...@web.de>
Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:29:16 +0100
Tim Roberts wrote:

> Rocco Moretti <roccomoretti at hotpop.com> wrote:> >>Antoon Pardon wrote:>>> I have problems with all languages>>> currently available, so I use those which rub me wrong the least.>>> ... [I]t doesn't weight heavy enough>>> 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.>>>>Not a very inspiring slogan though:>>"Python - the least of 1,000+ evils."> > 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
where it's taken from?

Peter

PS: Perhaps we can settle on (with apologies to Groucho Marx): I wouldn't
want to program in a language I can actually understand.

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