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This isn't a problem per se, but I was scanning the first couple chapters and noticed many references to Monty Python, presumably included from Think Python. Python has a culture of using Monty Python references in example code, a gimmick which is kind of cute in that context, but it's a little conspicuous in a book which ostensibly has nothing to do with Python.

I'm not overly bothered by it, and maybe it's not worth bringing up at all, but I'm reading the book now and I could keep some notes about where Monty Python references appear and maybe find some replacement material. Maybe Babbage quotes or other quips from CS luminaries, get some PR's together.

I just thought I'd bring it up. Feel free to close this issue and ignore if this is stupid.

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@ninjaaron I'm helping with a Spanish translation of ThinkJulia; and want to be aware of the Monty Python references, since I guess it will make even less sense for Spanish speakers. Doing a search in the ThinkJulia book, I only found five references to "Monty".

Did you keep that list of references?

@christianpeel It's not just "Monty". It's all the examples that have to do with sausage, eggs and spam, references unladen swallows, pining for the fjords, only a flesh wound, "Nee!", John Cleese, Eric Idle and things like that. By tradition, Python instructional material is chalked full of this kind of stuff.

However, I haven't haven't gone through most of the book yet myself, since @BenLauwens encouraged me to wait until he was finished preparing the book for publications before I start any major work on addressing some of the Python-centric tendencies in the material (also applicable to semantic differences in the language.) See #25 for that conversation. Sorry I can't help more!