On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 13:27 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 14 mai, 00:41, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (snip) > > IIRC the idea was so that managers could write programs in English. It > > failed because nobody could write a parser that would handle something > > like "The bottom line is that the stakeholder group requires the > > situation going forward to be such as to facilitate the variable known > > as x to provide the same outcome when stimulated by dereferencing as the > > variable known as y". > > John, I usually don't agree much with both what you say and how you > say it, but I must admit that this one is, well... just brillant !-) > > (IOW: rofl, keyboard, and +1 QOTW) > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Agreed. Best. Synonym. EVAR. (I won't give away the fun by saying what it's a synonym for) Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
