Python education survey

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sat Dec 31 13:23:35 EST 2011


In article <jdnd4v$6mg$1 at reader1.panix.com>,
 Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 2011-12-28, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:42:05 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> I don't care what ANY dictionary says. Much less a "world"
> >> dictionary. I don't validate or invalidate a word based on some phony
> >> baloney group of pseudo intellectuals who decided one to day that
> >> writing a dictionary "might be cool". I am against these words and
> >> phrases because we already have words that work just fine. Why rock
> >> the boat?
> >
> > Why do you say "rock" when the word "shake" is just as good?
> >
> > Why do you say "boat" when we already have "ship"?
> >
> > Why do you say "pseudo intellectuals" when you could say "fake 
> > intellectuals"?
> >
> > Why do I waste my time reading your pretentious self-important nonsense?
> 
> http://xkcd.com/386/
> 
> ;)

Why ROFLMAO when double-plus funny works just as well?



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