Pythonistas? <- Re: OT: Perl programmers?

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:43:07 -0800, David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>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,

Indeed so, -ista is the Spanish equivalent of English -ist.

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