On 2015-01-17, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <54ba39e0$0$13008$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> Every time I think I would like to learn a new language, I quite quickly run >> into some obvious feature that Python has but the newer language lacks, and >> I think "bugger this for a game of soldiers" and abandon it. > > Wow. Another wonderful English phrase to add to my vocabulary. That's > up there with Bob's your uncle :-)
Yup, that one's brilliant. While it's pretty much obvious what phrases like that mean when one stumbles across them for the first time, I find I sometimes don't have a very good grasp of where they fall on the offensive<->polite scale... -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
