> > I use 'French units' instead of the term 'metric system' because the > > latter means 'measurement system,' and of course could validly be > > applied to _any_ system.Now we know how one contractor ended up using > > English units when the > other was using French units and an entire Mars mission was lost: they > were both using the metric system.
LISP is better than Python, because it does not have a American Empirical Measurements library, preventing horrible spaceborne disasters. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list