Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On 2024-04-10, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 02:16:33 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
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I heard a lot about Browning when I lived in Great Falls. Don't think I
ever there (or through there) though.

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It's on 2 just past East Glacier. Theoretically it should get traffic from
Glacier tourists who go over Logan and then back on 2 or some other
routing. There is a hotel and casino but not much else.

When I went to Glacier Park I was living in Kalispell, so I don't know if we
got as far as Browning or not. (I was about eleven or twelve, so that's a
long time ago.)

I think I would have been on the French side in the war. The French
seemed to be able to trade with the Indians and get along with them (and
send missionaries). The English conquered and destroyed.

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In general the French preferred to make love, not war. My grandmother was
a Quebec convent girl (orphan) so I didn't know anything about her roots.
My first brush with DNA testing was out of curiosity when National
Geographic offered it. 0% Indian DNA. I don't know how accurate the
autosomal profiles are, but no French component either.

I don't know if DNA tests mean a lot. They'll say things like 20% English,
but the English are mongrels (like those in most countries), so what does it
really mean? I've heard that Indians won't provide DNA information. My
daughter took a DNA test and it showed no Indian blood. But I know my
grandmother (on my mother's side) was either half Indian or full blooded, so
my daughter has some Indian blood in her.

Even in New York State when it was under Dutch control it was mostly about
trading instead of settling in. The Dutch and English used the Iroquois as
proxies in the Beaver Wars with the English picking up after the Anglo-
Dutch wars.

I think the Dutch were more interested in money. The colonial English always
seemed to be interested in money AND conquest — not always in that order.

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