On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:47:20 -0800 Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry Hancock wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:44:19 -0800 > > Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Paragraph 3 in "Why Python": > >> and later in that paragraph, I'd change: > >> ... extensions that provide compact numerical > >> solutions > >> to: > >> ... extensions that provide compact high-speed > >> numerical solutions > > > > And while we're at it, let's say "Python is a language > > for programming high-speed, digital, electronic > > computers. Do you have any experience with high-speed, > > digital, electronic computers?" > > The reason I included high-speed is that the paragraph is > responding to its topic sentence:
You just touched my funny bone there. There's nothing wrong with the edit, really. ;-) > > For those who are too young, or weren't film students, > > the answer is "Yes, my aunt has one". > Well, I am definitely not too young, but I was never a > film student. What movie? Take the Money and Run (1969) Directed by Woody Allen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065063/ Of course, in the original concept, the interviewer is the straight man asking Allen's character about the "obviously" esoteric and high-tech field of computers for which someone like him is "obviously" not qualified. His statement that his Aunt has a computer was as incongruous in 1969 as claiming that she had a Saturn V or a Space Shuttle in her back yard. *Today*, the funny one is the interviewer, and Allen's line that his Aunt has one is perfectly reasonable. Even a mere 10 years later in 1979, this was true. I always found that ironic. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
