Python Worst Practices

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/03/2015 17:52, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>:
>
>> On 01/03/2015 17:01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> What you (or I) speak in our native surroundings is up to you (and
>>> me).
>>>
>>> However, when I exhange software engineering ideas with you, I wish
>>> both of us could stick to American English.
>>
>> Well I'm not going to, so tough, or is that togh? Colour, harbour,
>> tyre, antogonise are the way I spell words, and I'm not changing the
>> habits of a lifetime simply because I'm on a technical site.
>
> Wow, a somewhat Chauvinistic attitude, wouldn't you say? The French will
> learn it. The Germans will learn it. Us Finns will learn it. Only you
> won't learn it because you won't change the habits of a lifetime.
>
> I mean, nobody's taking away your native language. It's just that
> everybody's got to learn a foreign language. The learning curve
> shouldn't be too steep for a native Brit.
>
>
> Marko
>

I have German and Spanish 'O' levels taken 40 years ago.  I've no 
intention of going back to school to learn a dialect of my own language. 
  Why did those dumbos have to change it anyway, it's perfectly simple?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence