why python annoys me

Neil Benn neil.benn at cambridgeantibody.com
Fri Apr 20 11:51:12 EDT 2001


Hey top idea - I might deisgn a language using cockney ryhmning slang (if
you've seen the film 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels' - that's cockney
ryhmning slang

Could even go to a VM to handle different languages for keywords in
aprogramming languag (bit more serious)!

cheers,

Neil


"Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.987749550.19657.python-list at python.org...
> > > In *English* the actor always refers to the subject as most verb
> > > conjugations (what few there are ;) do not imply the subject.
> >
> > Please don't take me as English-centric. I would have normally brought
> > up German examples ("Das verstehe ich."), but then nobody would have
> > understood me :-) Even though there are more verb conjugations in
> > German than in English, it is still mandatory to have a subject when
> > you have an object.
>
> Ha - *I'm* English-centric (anglo-celtic Australian) ... I just happened
to
> have lived in Brasil on exchange for a year :)
>
> Tim Delaney
>





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