Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Neil Cerutti Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Ten rules to becoming a Python community member. Date: 15 Aug 2011 17:14:27 GMT Organization: Norwich University Lines: 39 Message-ID: <9at2fjF20mU1@mid.individual.net> References: <39e8985a-a0c1-487f-8f87-4e39d120c14b@h9g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> <4e47cbe5$0$23938$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <9asge7Fsv9U6@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net B+Cc6n81qp7x1KFsZ1MBpAKnoFRkgHGMx4EMARYlQlHeehBTwD Cancel-Lock: sha1:k+qV/azaGkzFI5F1/UD5nHqjvmQ= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1/mm/ao (Win32) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:11470 On 2011-08-15, MRAB wrote: > On 15/08/2011 17:18, Lucio Santi wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Neil Cerutti > > wrote: >> >> On 2011-08-14, Chris Angelico > > wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Irmen de Jong >> > wrote: >> >> On 14-8-2011 7:57, rantingrick wrote: >> >>> 8. Use "e.g." as many times as you can! (e.g. e.g.) If you use >> "e.g." >> >>> more than ten times in a single post, you will get an invite to >> >>> Guido's next birthday party; where you'll be forced to do shots >> whist >> >>> walking the balcony railing wearing wooden shoes! >> >> >> >> I lolled about this one, e.g. I laughed out loud. But where >> >> are the tulips and windmills for extra credit? >> >> >> >> Greetings from a Dutchman! >> >> No credit. E.g., i.e., exampla gratis, means, "for example." >> >> >> The correct spelling is 'exempli gratia'. It's Latin. Thanks for the correction. >> i.e., on the other hand, comes from 'id est' ('that is'). >> Latin too. > > I remember reading a book about polymorphism in programming. > The author said it came from Latin. Nope. Sounds more like Greek. -- Neil Cerutti