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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: anomaly
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 15:34:12 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-05-11, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Python is in production use in hundreds of thousands of
>> organisations. It has been heavily used for over twenty years, in
>> everything from quick and dirty one line scripts to hundred-thousand
>> LOC applications.
>
> Mark> Yeah, so was COBOL.  Boom.
>
> Your point being?

That Python, like COBOL, is an eminently practical language.

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