Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, robin wrote: > >> The Oblique Strategies were originally a set of one-hundred cards, each >> bearing a short phrase. They were devised by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt >> as ways of working through creative problems. When a blockage occurs, >> draw a card, and see if it can direct you in a tangential way that helps >> solve the problem. > >Neat! > >I can't help but feel that putting the strategies in a file and using >'fortune' to pick them would have been slightly simpler, but since i don't >actually seem to have fortune on my machine, i'm actually rather happy >that you've done this.
The best things about this approach are that code and data are in one file and you don't need to be on a machine with fortune. (My machines seem to mostly have misfortune, aka Windows.) I'm happy how Python reduces most small problems down to the most trivial of exercises. This is less a program than a list of text strings. ----- robin noisetheatre.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
