Pythonistas? <- Re: OT: Perl programmers?

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 13 23:39:13 EST 2002


Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com>:

> Indeed, it's just the Spanish form of the 'ist' English suffix (pianist,
> violinist, etc.) It simply means 'who performs an activity'.

Something about the sound of the Spanish form to me
suggests passion and enthusiasm, in a way the English
form doesn't. So Pythonista is quite appropriate!

Steven Rumbalski <srumbalski at prodigy.net>:

> 'Guidoista': three syllables or four? GWEE-DOY-STAH or GUI-DOH-EE-STAH?

Not three, please! It makes it sound Russian, which
seems rather brutal to my ears.

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