On 11/22/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>  > as was the case for ABC, Python's ill-fated predecessor which invented
>  > "optimal" terminology in a vacuum
>
> optimal?  I've always thought it was just odd translations from dutch?

No, dutch was not involved. Lambert's English is impeccable as far as
I can recall and Steven Pemberton's British (although he tries to pass
for a typical Amsterdammer :-).

> (but please, cannot we get the trains back in Python 3.0?  my son would
> *love* that ;-)

Mine would love it too, as long as the trains were called Thomas. :-)

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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