Pythonistas? <- Re: OT: Perl programmers?

[David Eppstein]

In article <eSz98.4759$zb.260473 at news1.east.cox.net>,
 "Jeff Hinrichs" <jlh at cox.net> wrote:

> Pythonista - Pie thun ee sta
> I took it as a unintended play on Sandanista, which is a group of  "freedom
> fighting" rebels in Nicaragua.

I think it's a normal Spanish suffix, but it seems to be moving into 
English -- I've also seen "Gapatista" used by some Calif. activists
<http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/sv/j4p/Gapatista.html>
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/