[OT] fortran lib which provide python like data type

[Paul Rudin]

Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> writes:

> 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.

Aha - the Humpty Dumpty approach to English usage: "When I use a word it
means just what I choose it to mean..."