What's the meaning of Dutch in "The Zen of Python"

Steve Williams stevewilliams at wwc.com
Wed May 19 23:11:18 EDT 2004


Tim Peters wrote:
[omissionalized]
I would
> have said French, except that every French person I asked "how do you make a
> shallow copy of a list?" failed to answer
> 
>     alist[:]
> 
> so I guess that's not obvious to them.

Based on my exposure to comp.lang.python over the past four years, I'd 
bet every one of the Italian persuasion would answer correctly.

Conclusion?  Pragmatics is great in theory, but . . .




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