[Python-Dev] FP vs. tutorial

[Jeremy Hylton]

>>>>> "MWH" == Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

  MWH> Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com> writes:
  >> Who was it that said every equation will halve your audience?

  MWH> It was Stephen Hawking's editor when he was preparing A Brief
  MWH> History Of Time (or at least, it gets mentioned in the preface;
  MWH> the advice may be older).

There's a similar saw about excerpts of books in foreign languages.  I
believe I first read it in reference to Umberto Eco's Foucault's
Pendulum, which starts with a full page of Hebrew.

Jeremy