Not lucky at all, Michael. The problem is he published a number of things with Paul Erdős a few years after I got my degrees and went to Bell laboratories. I never met Erdős but he was prolific and had 507 people publish with him as co-authors. I would have loved to as I also speak languages he spoke including Hungarian and Math.
Well, time to get back to something remotely about Python. Is there any concept of a Rossum Number where anyone who worked directly with Guido Van Rossum is a 1 (or True or truthy) and ... Hey I just realized my Berners-Lee number might be 1 but it was so long ago we worked on what Hypertext should look like, ... -----Original Message----- From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avigross=verizon....@python.org> On Behalf Of Michael F. Stemper Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:41 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: XML Considered Harmful On 28/09/2021 13.27, Avi Gross wrote: > Well, Michael, if you want to go back to the eighties, and people you > worked with, I did my Thesis with a professor who later had an Erdős number of 1! > Too bad I never got around to publishing something with him or I could > have been a 2! Lucky you. If a paper that a friend of mine is submitting to various journals gets accepted by one of them, I'll end up with a 4 or 5 through him. However, as the months pass, it's looking more like mine will end up NaN. -- Michael F. Stemper Isaiah 58:6-7 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
