In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >2. yes, cost. University mainframes cost $s/minute. I remember >blowing about $200 due to a misplaced comma or something in a >statistical analysis setup. So it was cost-effective (and rather >liberating) to spend $10000 on a desktop Unix system for both >statistics and text work.
Same here, only it was not remembering that the filesystem disallowed names starting with digits. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list