Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.021 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'english.': 0.04; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'curve': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'language.': 0.14; "wouldn't": 0.14; 'mean,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'steep': 0.16; 'wow,': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; "shouldn't": 0.24; 'stick': 0.24; '(or': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; "i'm": 0.30; 'could': 0.34; 'german': 0.35; 'words,': 0.36; 'changing': 0.37; 'too': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'ago.': 0.61; 'french': 0.61; 'simply': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'our': 0.64; 'school': 0.64; 'taking': 0.65; 'levels': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'american': 0.66; 'wish': 0.70; 'to,': 0.72; 'foreign': 0.74; 'attitude,': 0.84; 'dialect': 0.84; 'finns': 0.84; 'me).': 0.84; 'subject:Practices': 0.84; 'tough,': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python Worst Practices Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:16:28 +0000 References: <87ioem8ftg.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <54f2c9c6$0$12991$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <8761ak7kxm.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87sido6491.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <87oaoc61wf.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-181-195.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 In-Reply-To: <87oaoc61wf.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.19 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1425233800 news.xs4all.nl 2864 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38439 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:86666 On 01/03/2015 17:52, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Mark Lawrence : > >> On 01/03/2015 17:01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >>> What you (or I) speak in our native surroundings is up to you (and >>> me). >>> >>> However, when I exhange software engineering ideas with you, I wish >>> both of us could stick to American English. >> >> Well I'm not going to, so tough, or is that togh? Colour, harbour, >> tyre, antogonise are the way I spell words, and I'm not changing the >> habits of a lifetime simply because I'm on a technical site. > > Wow, a somewhat Chauvinistic attitude, wouldn't you say? The French will > learn it. The Germans will learn it. Us Finns will learn it. Only you > won't learn it because you won't change the habits of a lifetime. > > I mean, nobody's taking away your native language. It's just that > everybody's got to learn a foreign language. The learning curve > shouldn't be too steep for a native Brit. > > > Marko > I have German and Spanish 'O' levels taken 40 years ago. I've no intention of going back to school to learn a dialect of my own language. Why did those dumbos have to change it anyway, it's perfectly simple? -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence