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| Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:28:10 -0800 |
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On 20 Feb 2013 04:15:01 GMT Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:45:53 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > > > A quote from Computer World (http://tinyurl.com/bxqjed8): > > > > "... the Python Software Foundation (PSF) - a non-profit supporting > > the venerable Python programming language ..." > > > > Venerable? Come on. Fortran is venerable. Cobol is venerable. > > Old farts use things that are venerable. I don't want to be an old > > fart (not that I have much say in the matter). > > Venerable does not mean "old". It means worthy of veneration. Cobol > is not venerable. Cobol is *just old*.' > > > Definition of VENERABLE: > 1: deserving to be venerated —used as a title for an Anglican > archdeacon or for a Roman Catholic who has been accorded the lowest > of three degrees of recognition for sanctity > 2: made sacred especially by religious or historical association > 3a : calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments <a > venerable jazz musician>; broadly : conveying an impression of aged > goodness and benevolence <encouraged by the venerable doctor's head- > nodding> > b: impressive by reason of age <under venerable pines> So a venerable cult then. cult: group/sect bound together by veneration of some thing, person, ideal, etc. Whether a sect or group remains to be worked out. Probably not a tuple.
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Is Python "venerable"? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-02-19 21:45 -0500
Re: Is Python "venerable"? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-20 03:09 +0000
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Barry W Brown <brownbar@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 19:53 -0800
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-02-20 16:03 +0000
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-19 23:03 -0500
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-20 04:15 +0000
Re: Is Python "venerable"? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-20 11:28 -0800
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-02-19 23:10 -0500
Re: Is Python "venerable"? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-02-19 20:42 -0800
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 09:08 +0000
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 20:20 +1100
Re: Is Python "venerable"? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 02:49 -0800
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-02-20 10:19 +0100
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2013-02-20 06:03 -0500
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Steve Simmons <square.steve@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 12:35 +0100
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-20 22:45 +1100
Re: Is Python "venerable"? rh <richard_hubbe11@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-20 11:29 -0800
Re: Is Python "venerable"? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-02-20 10:33 -0500
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