[Python-Dev] Software integrators vs end users (was Re: Language Summit notes)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Apr 19 00:16:50 CEST 2014


Nick Coghlan wrote:
> there are actually now *two* main ways of consuming
> Python:

Really? We'd better do something about that. We don't want
anyone consuming Python -- we want some left over for the
rest of us!

(I'm making a serious point -- it's annoying when people use
the word "consume" as though it were a synonym for "use".
It's not.)

When-I-consume-a-word-said-Humpty-Dumpty-ly,
Greg


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