On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano writes: > > > Also, "Czar" is commonly used in US politics as an informal term for the > top > > official responsible for an area. > > I think here the most important connotation is that in US parlance a > "czar" does not report to a committee, and with the exception of a > case where Sybil is appointed czar, cannot bikeshed. Decisions get > made (what a concept!)
I'm curious how old that usage is. I first encountered it around '88 when I interned for a summer at DEC SRC (long since subsumed into HP Labs); the person in charge of deciding a particular aspect of their software or organization was called a czar, e.g. the documentation czar. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
