Tim Roberts wrote: > Rocco Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Antoon Pardon wrote: >>> I have problems with all languages >>> currently available, so I use those which rub me wrong the least. >>> ... [I]t doesn't weight heavy enough >>> to go and use an other language, although I keeping looking at >>> the other languages. >> >>I think the operational definition of a "zealot" is someone who thinks >>what they have is absolutely perfect, and refuses to examine the >>alternatives. >> >>Not a very inspiring slogan though: >>"Python - the least of 1,000+ evils." > > Or, paraphrasing Mark Twain, "Python is the worst possible programming > language, except for all the others."
I've been trying to establish that a while ago, but would attribute it to Winston Churchill -- so I'm a little confused now. Can you provide the text where it's taken from? Peter PS: Perhaps we can settle on (with apologies to Groucho Marx): I wouldn't want to program in a language I can actually understand. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list