P*rl in Latin, whither Python?

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 21 03:28:28 EST 2000


"William Tanksley" <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote in message
news:slrn91kb6q.jtn.wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net...
> On 20 Nov 2000 22:06:20 -0800, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> >On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:36:54 -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
> >>Quod erat demonstrandum.  Dankon, Konrad.  :-)
    [snip]
> The second sentance is in some other language.  Sorry, not one I know, and
> the word is too widespread for me to be able to guess more than that it's
> Germanic.  Perhaps Dutch (always a safe guess in this NG)?

'Dankon' is definitely in Esperanto (meaning 'thanks') -- I don't
know if any other language also has this word, though (isn't it
something like "dank je" in Dutch, though?).


Alex







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