Pythonistas? <- Re: OT: Perl programmers?

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Jeff Shannon || Mon 11 Feb 2002 12:31:18p:

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> Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
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>> I took it as a unintended play on Sandanista, which is a group of 
>> "freedom fighting" rebels in Nicaragua. 
> 
> cf. also Zapatistas, Peronistas, etc... it's common for followers of a
> specific leader to be referred to thusly, just as in English we have
> Marxists, Leninists, Maoists, etc...  nothing specific about the
> "-ista" suffix having anything to do with "freedom
> fighters"/"revolutionaries"/"terrorists" ... 
> 
> (Though using Python *could* perhaps be equated to "freedom fighting"
> in other ways...  ;) )

Then it becomes 'Guidoista' perhaps, for following a specific leader? ;)
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