What is Python?

Grant Edwards ge at nowhere.none
Wed Sep 27 10:32:39 EDT 2000


In article <XFMail.000927085644.mikael at isy.liu.se>, Mikael Olofsson wrote:

> >  Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > And the lack of a
> > > sex-neutral third person singular pronoun is annoying. 
>
>What? Is "it" deprecated?

When used to refer to a person, "it" is generally considered
insulting.  And it sounds funny:

"When a programmer needs to write a quick utility program, it
should consider using Python."

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Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  Dizzy, are we
                                  at               "REAL PEOPLE" or "AMAZING
                               visi.com            ANIMALS"?



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