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On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:34:09 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On 5/30/2011 8:32 PM, harrismh777 wrote:
> 
> > Ever tried to read Beowulf in the original? Ever tried to write Ænglisc ?
> 
> I have, and it is a lot further from modern American than Python 2 and 3 
> are from each other.
>
	Heck... Python 2 and 3 are modern vs Shakespearian English...
Chaucer is closer to Python vs Ruby... Beowulf? Might as well be APL...
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