David H. Adler
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:34:22 -0800
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:07:28AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dave Cross wrote: > > > > And I realise that my description yesterday was slightly inaccurate. > > I said it would parse Perl approximately. A better description would be > > that it parses approximate Perl. > > > > Thus making the phrase 'you can't make up any old shit and expect it to > work' redundant ? The canonical phrasing (mjd in his guise as RETARDO): YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE SHIT UP AND EXPECT THE COMPUTER TO MAGICALLY KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN! dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ There are 6 billion people in the world, and only 30 billion of those are Canadians - Headline in the Toronto Globe and Mail