What is Python?

Grant Edwards ge at nowhere.none
Wed Sep 20 14:13:33 EDT 2000


In article <39C867B5.DFF9FFD3 at seebelow.org>, Grant Griffin wrote:

>We native English speakers have grown to love its idiosyncrasies for
>their charm.  However, when I first learned to read, I was very
>frustrated with the non-uniformity of its spelling.  (In fact, I had to
>chuckle a little when I first heard a few years ago that the Germans
>thought their already-highly-logical spelling needed "reform".)  So in
>that vein, I guess learning to _read_ English gives the native English
>speaker a bit of a taste for what its like to learn to _speak_ it.

Hey, at least we've only got one word for "the" and none of
that silly "gender" stuff.

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