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Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 22:35:01 -0700
Subject: Re: Beginner needs advice
From: Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu>
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 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 =C6ngl=
isc ?
>>
>> I have, and it is a lot further from modern American than Python 2 and 3
>> are from each other.
>>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Heck... Python 2 and 3 are modern vs Shakespearian English=
...
> Chaucer is closer to Python vs Ruby... Beowulf? Might as well be APL...
> --


No, Python 2 vs 3 is more of American English vs British English.
People who speak one of them work under the philosophy that "if y'all
would just speak English we wouldn't have these problems"