On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org > >wrote: > > > On Monday 26 Apr 2010 4:53:05 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Dhananjay Nene > > > <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [..] > > > > > > > Apologies at persisting in this .. but I do think it is a very > > > > unconventional usecase for programs to be used as specifications. > > > > > > > this thread is very interesting - but are you people sure that the > original > > article in question is not a joke? Or have you all read that 667 page pdf > > in > > which allegedly python is mentioned only on page 1? > > > > > I am sure the article is unlikely to be a joke. The post which the slashdot > post referred to ie. > http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-python/ is written > by Prof. J R Verma, a gentleman who I had the very good fortune of studying > under, and who is a very senior figure in the Indian financial scene. The > post by Prof. Verma also incidentally mentions Python is mentioned on Page > 205. :) > > And FWIW - no, I didn't read the 667 page PDF :) > I downloaded it and went through it, counting the # of times Python is mentioned as an exercise . It is not a joke and Python is mentioned not only in page 1, but in pages 6, 18, 205, 206, 210, 212, 213, 214, 216, 217, 316, 428 and 489 - so that there is no doubt :) It is easy. The link is below, just download and verify yourselves. http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2010/33-9117.pdf > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com > twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
