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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:03:07 +1100
Subject: Re: flaming vs accuracy [was Re: Performance of int/long in Python 3]
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:12:21 -0700, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>>
>> At some point we have to stop being gentle / polite / politically correct and call a shovel a shovel... er, spade.
>
>         Call it an Instrument For the Transplantation of Dirt
>
>         (Is an antique Steam Shovel ever a Steam Spade?)

I don't know, but I'm pretty sure there's a private detective who
wouldn't appreciate being called Sam Shovel.

ChrisA