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On 12/05/2015 06:02, alex23 wrote:
> On 12/05/2015 1:39 AM, zipher wrote:
>> On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 10:34:24 AM UTC-5, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> That Python, like COBOL, is an eminently practical language.
>>
>> LOL!  Good one.
>
> I would make an incredibly substantial wager that you've never developed
> anything of note in either Python or COBOL.
>

Why waste the final seven words?

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

Mark Lawrence