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

From: Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net>
Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:09:38 -0500
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> where it's taken from?

A little Googling shows it is widely attributed to Churchill but I didn't find an original source. 
The full quote seems to be "democracy is the worst possible form of government except - all the 
others that have been tried".

The most authoritative citation I can find is from this page at The Churchill Centre:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=591

Interestingly, this quote is not on their page of famous quotes:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=388

Kent

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