Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread David Mitchell
Tolkien quotes are mandatory? perl5's globals.c malloc.c perlio.c perly.c universal.c xsutils.c definitely fail then. Sounds like some urgent patches need submitting to p5p ;-)

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread Roman M. Parparov
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:57:10PM +, David Mitchell wrote: Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books, and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread David Mitchell
Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books, and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo strikes me as a good place to yank from, as does Zot!, but Pratchett

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread David Mitchell
And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ??? If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s read him :-) Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :) But Pratchet has 20+ books to his credit, so we need never run out of quotes :-)

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:06:49PM +, David Mitchell wrote: And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ??? If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s read him :-) Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :) But Pratchet

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:57 PM 2/20/2001 +, David Mitchell wrote: Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books, and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo strikes me as a

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:43:11PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: My name (Merijn) is *from* Tolkien's dutch translation, so I'm a little biases if I state: "Stick with Tolkien". Well, I'm of to Mordor now ... http://www.prembone.com/mythtakes/shiresong.html --

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread Simply Hao
Douglas Adams does seem rather more appropriate a source of quotes for software (anyone's, alas) than Pratchett. But Adams already has a software company. -Hao

Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)

2001-02-20 Thread David L. Nicol
Simply Hao wrote: Douglas Adams does seem rather more appropriate a source of quotes for software (anyone's, alas) than Pratchett. But Adams already has a software company. And Sirius pioneered the GPP in Perl 6.