Python conference slogan

[Mark Jackson]

Peter Maas <peter.maas at mplusr.de> writes:
> Jacek Generowicz wrote:
> > Peter Maas <peter.maas at mplusr.de> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>These slogans are meaningless to (Monty) Python outsiders.
> [..]
> > A previous slogan was:
> > 
> >    Python: Programming the way Guido indented it.
> > 
> > Pretty meaningless to Python outsiders, I'd say.
> 
> No. Because an outsider will read 'intended it', at least I did.
> And that's not wrong, either :) The first poster (at least in my
> news reader) didn't tell anything about the purpose. For me a
> slogan's purpose is advertising and it's useless to advertise
> Python to people who like it already.

I have that T-shirt, and have worn it to non-geek events (e.g. when
acting as an adult advisor to a church youth conference).  It does draw
programmers into conversation, and hence offers opportunities for
efangelism.

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Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson
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