On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:25 AM, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > Chris Torek wrote: >>> >>> with the Python-named-Monty, we have "rigidly defined areas of >>> >doubt and uncertainty". These exist for good reasons: to allow >>> >different implementations. >> >> Oops, attribution error: this comes from Douglas Adams rather >> than Monty Python. > > Well, its certainly Monte-esq.... I like it, whoever said it.
Same style of humour, they both derived significantly from Spike Milligan and "The Goon Show". That particular quote relates to the famous computer that calculated the number 42, which - to drag this, kicking and screaming, back to some semblance of on-topicness - was clearly built with a view to conserving programmer time at the expense of execution time. I don't understand why they didn't just recode the heavy computation in C and cut it down to just a few thousand years... Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
