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On 23/01/2015 03:53, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> If your manager is so bad, why isn't he insisting that you program in PHP or
> Java or Algol 68 [insert name of some language you dislike] instead of
> Python? Is your bad manager forcing you to write Java-style code in Python,
> or insisting on Hungarian Notation?
>

Seems like a good excuse to mention CORAL 66 for the first time in 
years, even if it wasn't *that* bad :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence