Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer
Travis Griggs
travisgriggs at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 12:30:59 EDT 2016
> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> Tim Golden wrote:
>
>> (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in
>> England the first syllable is stressed and the second is the
>> conventional short "uh" sound).
>
> I can attest that New Zealand follows the UK on this. I was
> surprised when I first heard an American pronounce it too.
>
> The curious can hear the difference on these pages:
>
> British: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/python
> American: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/python?s=t
That does it. If I ever make some sort of open source module for pythun/pythawn I’ll be sure to call it either tuhmayto/tomawto. Or maybe I’ll call it puhtayto/potawto.
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