Hendrik van Rooyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Sion Arrowsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >>>I still don't like the thought of the horrible mix of "foreign" >>>identifiers and English keywords, coupled with the English >>>sentence construction. >>How do you think you'd feel if Python had less in the way of >>(conventionally used) English keywords/builtins. Like, say, Perl? >Would not like it at all, for the same reason I don't like re's - >It looks like random samples out of alphabet soup to me.
What I meant was, would the use of "foreign" identifiers look so horrible to you if the core language had fewer English keywords? (Perhaps Perl, with its line-noise, was a poor choice of example. Maybe Lisp would be better, but I'm not so sure of my Lisp as to make such an assertion for it.) -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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