On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 02:20:56 +0100, MRAB wrote: > >> One vs not-one isn't good enough. Some languages use the singular with >> any numbers ending in '1'. Some languages have singular, dual, and >> plural. Etc. It's surprising how inventive people can be! :-) > > This is a good time to link to these interesting articles: > > http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ > > http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
Thanks for that! I know the one about names, but have just had a good-fun read of the second one. My sister and I are currently playing Dungeons and Dragons together, and the trek through the bee-infested forest took second place to laughing about time. :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
