OT: The Straight Dope

[Jeff Bauer]

As a longtime reader (20+ years) of Cecil Adams'
"Straight Dope" columns, I was amused to find a
brief mention of Python programming in today's
response to the following question.

"What's the 'Scroll Lock' key on my computer for?"

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mscrolllock.html

  "However, programmers, being loath to let extraneous
  keys sit unused on a keyboard, have found use for
  [backquote] as an operator in the LISP and Python
  programming languages."

if-tim-is-sherlock-then-cecil-must-be-mycroft-ly y'rs,

Jeff Bauer
Rubicon Research