Python education survey

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Jan 3 20:30:41 EST 2012


On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:33:45 -0800, Eelco wrote:

>> Why do people use pretty when we already have words that carry more
>> specific meaning? Because they are lazy! And laziness begets stupidity.
> 
> No, that would be because they are not autistic. Most people like having
> a repertoire of words with subtly different meanings in their natural
> language, because there is a demand for this semantic richness.

+1 QOTW


-- 
Steven



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