Jonathan Stowe
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:52:31 -0800
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, David H. Adler wrote: > 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! > Yeah, thats what I meant. Cheers Dave. /J\