Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Sat Jul 14 03:18:51 EDT 2018


Bob Martin <bob.martin at excite.com>:

> in 796624 20180714 064331 Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>>Larry Martell wrote:
>>> And while we're talking about the Dutch, why is the country called
>>> Holland, but then also The Netherlands, but the people are Dutch?
>>
>>And Germany is called Deutchland?
>
> The real question is why do English speakers refer to Deutschland as
> Germany.

And the answer is near:

   "The War that Changed the English Language"
   <URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3K63Rbygw>


Marko



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