In article <mailman.99.1234863853.11746.python-l...@python.org>, Hendrik van Rooyen <m...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: >"Ben Finney" <bignose+hates-s...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >>a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes: >>> In article <mailman.52.1234797812.11746.python-l...@python.org>, >>> Hendrik van Rooyen <m...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: >>>> >>>>Occam was the language that should have won the marketing prize, >>>>but didn't. >>> >>> It wasn't simple enough. >> >>*bdom-tsssh* <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor> > >If Aahz was trolling, then he got me. I know about William of Occam, >after whom the language was named, and his razor, but did not make the >association, and answered seriously.
Not trolling, but making a joke. Not always easy to tell the difference, of course. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." --Butler Lampson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
