Re: ISO8601 [was] Re: Pointless, Badly-Written Module.

[pmh]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:07:16 +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> At 17:48 23/03/2001, you wrote:
> >On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> >
> > > Well, I can make a guess at what the first number represents. Those 
> > expansion plans really are short-term.
> >
> > >       Peter Haworth   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > "Put down those Windows disks Dave....  Dave?  DAVE!!"
> > >       -- HAL 9000
> >
> >and for a bonus half point (cos its easy) .. why was HAL called HAL?
> 
> Well, Arthur C Clarke claims it's a pure coincidence, but if you take the 
> letters after each of H, A and L - you get IBM.

I vaguely recall it standing for something like "Heuristic Algorithmic Logic," but 
that doesn't really set it apart from anything.

-- 
        Peter Haworth   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mary had a little key - she kept it in escrow.
And every thing that mary said, the feds were sure to know.
                -- Sam Simpson