Python slogan, was Re: Grouping code by indentation - feature or ******?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Sat Mar 26 21:43:48 EST 2005


Peter Otten wrote:
> Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> 
>>    >> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible
>>    >> programming language, except for all the others."
> 
> 
>>Google thinks it's Winston Churchill as well.  I did come across a quote
>>wiki:
>>
>>    http://www.wikiquote.org/

> Wikiquote is nice. I missed it because I googled for Mark Twain and parts of
> the Churchill quote -- for that I'm now convinced it is as wikiquote gives
> a slightly longer excerpt and the date and location of the speech (November
> 11, 1947, in the House of Commons).

Interesting that in the quote on wikiquote, Churchill indicates that the sentiment is not original 
with him:
"Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other 
forms that have been tried from time to time."

Note the "it has been said"...

Kent



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