Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible > >> programming language, except for all the others."
> Google thinks it's Winston Churchill as well. I did come across a quote > wiki: > > http://www.wikiquote.org/ > > None of the quotes attributes to Mark Twain looked like the democracy > quote, though he had a few other good ones related to goverment and > politics that might be worth a passing glance: > > http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain Thanks Kent, thanks Skip. Wikiquote is nice. I missed it because I googled for Mark Twain and parts of the Churchill quote -- for that I'm now convinced it is as wikiquote gives a slightly longer excerpt and the date and location of the speech (November 11, 1947, in the House of Commons). The closest Mark Twain quote I found is "We are stopping at Shepherd's Hotel, which is the worst on earth except the one I stopped at once in a small town in the United States." http://www.mtwain.com/Innocents_Abroad/58.html Not very close, though, and the ones on wikiquote are better, too. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
