[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> And there are underspecified rules too. What is the plural of octopus? No
>> fair looking it up in the dictionary.
>
> Standard and well-known piece of trivia, and there are several
> options. "Octopodes" is one of the most rigorously formal, but
> "octopuses" is perfectly acceptable. "Octopi" is technically
> incorrect, as the -us ending does not derive from the Latin.

Your brain's grammar engine will give you the correct answer. It may not
match your English teacher's answer, but the language we are talking
about is not standard English but the dialect you have acquired in
childhood.


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