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

[Peter Otten]

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/
> 
> None of the quotes attributes to Mark Twain looked like the democracy
> quote, though he had a few other good ones related to goverment and
> politics that might be worth a passing glance:
> 
>     http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain


Thanks Kent, thanks Skip.

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).

The closest Mark Twain quote I found is

"We are stopping at Shepherd's Hotel, which is the worst on earth except the
one I stopped at once in a small town in the United States."

http://www.mtwain.com/Innocents_Abroad/58.html

Not very close, though, and the ones on wikiquote are better, too.

Peter