What is Python?

Rainer Deyke root at rainerdeyke.com
Mon Nov 20 21:20:39 EST 2000


"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
news:H2iS5.9413$FU3.2477930 at ptah.visi.com...
> In article <00fh1tgaludcggor2rigl2d4uuh2dpni5t at 4ax.com>, Courageous wrote:
>
> >This is also quickly dropping by the wayside as awkward and
> >stuffy. For example, many people have no problem at all whatsoever
> >picking up the phone and saying "it's me," even though that's illegal
> >according to older grammatical standards.
>
> And also damned uninformative.  Not that "It is I" is any less
> useless a tautology.

Totally unrelated rhetorical question: When one says "It is raining", to
what is the "it" refering?


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