Re: Jerry Pournelle gives award to Python and Guido for 2008

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Hanson
[Tardy as well as drifting off-topic:] Terry Reedy wrote: > Richard Hanson wrote: > > > Jerry Pournelle commends Python and Guido in "The Annual Orchid > > and Onions Parade" portion of his Chaos Manor Reviews column: > > > > ><http://www.

Jerry Pournelle gives award to Python and Guido for 2008

2009-01-17 Thread Richard Hanson
serves a large Orchid. It's useful, well structured, easy to learn, and powerful. I use it to write quick filter functions among other things. I'm pleased to hand Guido a big Orchid. [...] ''' I add: Great job, Guido and all! -- Richard Hanson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-19 Thread Richard Hanson
x27;ve been exploring with them and am slowly coming to some understanding. -- Richard Hanson "To many native-English-speaking developers well versed in other programming environments, Python is *already* a foreign language -- judging by the posts here in c.l.p

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-17 Thread Richard Hanson
allows for a few specific "non-ASCII" glyphs as the start of a name. I have solved my problem with my Python "appliance computer" project by having up to three representations for my names: Python 2.x acceptable names as the actual Python identifier, a Unicode text display exposed to the end user, and also if needed, a bitmap display exposed to the end user. So -- IAGNI. :-) -- Richard Hanson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list