Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!cyclone01.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe21.ams2.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python From: Rikishi42 Subject: Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively References: <4dd61066$0$29996$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <37nqa8-lpa.ln1@murmur.very.softly> <4ddaf94b$0$29996$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4ddd898d$0$29996$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Message-ID: <9cddb8-viv.ln1@murmur.very.softly> Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.225.131.51 X-Complaints-To: http://telenet.be/ X-Trace: newsfe21.ams2 1306790102 94.225.131.51 (Mon, 30 May 2011 21:15:02 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:15:02 UTC Organization: telenet.be Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 23:04:41 +0200 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:6671 On 2011-05-28, Chris Angelico wrote: > I think it's geographic. This list covers a lot of geography; I'm in > Australia, there are quite a few Brits, and probably the bulk of posts > come from either the US or Europe. (And yes, I did deliberately fold > all of Europe down to one entity, and I did also deliberately leave > Great Britain out of that entity.) I allways found that odd. Especially if you're talking geography, not politics. I can understand they want to be seen as independant, even they are in it enough to allways opose anything someone else suggests. :-) To me, saying the UK isn't part of Europe, is like saying Japan isn't part of Asia. Oh by the way, I'm Belgian. > Most things work out that way. A thing gets a name based either on its > implementation or on the brand name of the first/most popular one. If > the only microwave oven ever produced had been made by Foobar Corp, > and that company were not known for anything else, then quite possibly > everyone would call them "foobar ovens". Yeah, when I was a kid a photo camera was called a Kodak. -- When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson