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On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:32:26 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> declaimed
the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> In article <mailman.2984.1344208723.4697.python-list@python.org>,
>  Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 08/05/12 17:00, John Mordecai Dildy wrote:
> > > since when did we start talking about lisp?
> > 
> > Though not a lisper, the Python tie-in was my reply:  Python (among
> > many other languages) doesn't allow a "-" as a character in
> > identifiers as you appeared to use it in your code.  Unlike HTML,
> > XML, CSS, and apparently lisp and COBOL (thanks, MRAB, for ripping
> > open that scab after years of trying to repress those COBOL memories
> > :-)   where identifiers may contain the dash.
> > 
> > -tkc
> 
> Does BNF count as a language?

	It's a meta-language <G>
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