[bip] "not with the sword only, but the battleaxe"

[Erich Schwarz]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Andrew Dalke wrote:

> I'd never heard that reference before and the only thing I could
> find was from http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives/archivesmail/mail11.html
> in a context that I don't follow.  Who would the Persians be?

    It's from Herodotus' description of a conversation between two
Spartans (Sperthias and Bulis) and the Persian official Hydarnes.

    I'm not sure I meant to designate any particular Python
programmers as Persians, but I did like the idea of having to use
both swords and battle-axes to take over a domain name.  ;)


--Erich