On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ASCII was once your one companion, it was all that mattered. ASCII was >> once a friendly encoding, then your world was shattered. Wishing it >> were somehow here again, wishing it were somehow near... sometimes it >> seemed, if you just dreamed, somehow it would be here! Wishing you >> could use just bytes again, knowing that you never would... dreaming >> of it won't help you to do all that you dream you could! > >> It's time to stop chasing the phantom and start living in the Raoul >> world... err, the real world. :) > > I thought that "If only bytes were 21+ bits wide" would sound sufficiently > nonsensical, that I did not need to explicitly qualify it as a utopian dream!
Humour never dies! ChrisA (In case it's not obvious, by the way, everything I said above is a reference to the Phantom of the Opera.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
