Re: OT: Esperanto again (was Re: why is python better than eg. smalltalk?? )

From: Anton Vredegoor (anton_at_vredegoor.doge.nl)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 11:26:27 +0200

Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp.com> wrote:

>As the author of that, I have to object slightly. Yes, it was
>humor, but there are most definitely more people in the
>Netherlands who speak Esperanto than there are people walking
>on the moon, unless my lack of television has led to me missing
>a few key events in the world of space exploration in the last
>few years...

Only if one is using statically typed concepts. There's a common
feeling here that the government operates at a very large distance
from the citizens of this country, and certainly doesn't speak
esperanto.

Anton