On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Neil Hodgson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > rusi wrote: >> > "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs >> > which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." >> >> In my personal experience, it's calculators. I put command-line >> calculators into *everything*... often in the form of more general >> executors, and thus restricted to admins, but it's still a calculator. >> >> For some reason, the ability to type "calc 1+2" and get back 3 is very >> satisfying to me. You know, in case I ever forget what one plus two >> makes. > > I discovered recently that Spotlight (the OSX built-in search engine) > can do this.
Good feature, not surprising. Google Search has had that feature for a while, and it just "feels right" to be able to look up information the same way regardless of its source. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
