Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer

Ian Kelly ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 12:34:04 EDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Travis Griggs <travisgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Tim Golden wrote:
>>
>>> (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in
>>> England the first syllable is stressed and the second is the
>>> conventional short "uh" sound).
>>
>> I can attest that New Zealand follows the UK on this. I was
>> surprised when I first heard an American pronounce it too.
>>
>> The curious can hear the difference on these pages:
>>
>> British:  http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/python
>> American: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/python?s=t
>
> That does it. If I ever make some sort of open source module for pythun/pythawn I’ll be sure to call it either tuhmayto/tomawto. Or maybe I’ll call it puhtayto/potawto.

Pytato?



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