On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:25 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018-05-16, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Tue, 15 May 2018 22:21:15 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: >> >>> On 2018-05-15 00:52:42 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> [...] >>>> By 1991 there had already been *decades* of experience with C >>> >>> About one and a half decades. >> >> That would still be plural decades. > > So would zero. ;) > > The only plural in English implies is that the quantity is not 1. It > does _not_ imply the quantity is greater than 1.
By 1991 there had already been AT LEAST negative seven decades of experience with C. It's mathematically provable! And completely useless. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
