I've been waiting for a month to post this (yesterday), and then I missed it. Oh, well, it's funny and deserves to be republished on its ten-year-and-one-day anniversary.
BTW, a member of the ANSI C committee once told me that the only thing rand is used for in C code is to decide whether to pick up the axe or throw the dwarf, and if that's true I guess "the typical libc rand" is adequate for all but the most fanatic of gamers . -- Tim Peters, 21 June 1997. "Belated-but-still-sincerely-admiring-of-Tim-Peters"-ly yrs, Clarence -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
