Pythonistas? <- Re: OT: Perl programmers?

[phil hunt]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:10:48 -0600, Gustavo Cordova <gcordova at hebmex.com> wrote:
>> >"-ist" - an individual professionally or avocationally 
>> occupied with the
>> >idea or activity defined by the root [1].
>> 
>> >Of course, in either Spanish or Esperanto it would more commonly be
>> >"Pythonisto" anyway, so who knows.
>
>Kinda wrong for Spanish though.
>
>A follower of Zapata ("Emiliano Zapata", perhaps?) would be "Zapatista",
>be it a male or female. "Zapatisto" is a gross error, and it's funny
>also :-)
>
>It's common for little children to mistakenly use "-isto" as well as
>"-ista" when talking about boys or girls, that's why it's funny, because
>it's an infantile mistake.

Is -ista always feminine? E.g. is it always _la dentista_ not _el dentista_?

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