| 1 |
On Saturday 17 July 2010 22:17:32 Stéphane Guedon wrote: |
| 2 |
> > See how fantastic this is? See how this conforms to The One True (Unix) |
| 3 |
> > Way? |
| 4 |
> > |
| 5 |
> > |
| 6 |
> > |
| 7 |
> > See how it looks nothing like XML (invented by a Windows user, |
| 8 |
> > obviously), and actually looks a lot like perl with regexes? |
| 9 |
> > |
| 10 |
> > |
| 11 |
> > |
| 12 |
> > On second thoughts, it looks nothing like perl. There aren't enough $, @ |
| 13 |
> > and % symbols in it. But the regex bit stands. |
| 14 |
> > |
| 15 |
> > |
| 16 |
> > |
| 17 |
> > :-) |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> Thind this un-understandable ! |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
It's a joke, and it's been going on for a *very* long time :-) |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
Every time someone mentions hal, and it doesn't matter what it's about, either |
| 24 |
me or Neil will usually post and and tell Dale now is his chance to tell us |
| 25 |
about hal. We've done this about 100 times by now so nothing Dale says |
| 26 |
is new :-) And everyone else usually joins in the fun. |
| 27 |
|
| 28 |
Sometimes, just for fun, we'll turn the hal joke into something against perl, |
| 29 |
or python or anything else really. |
| 30 |
|
| 31 |
If you don't get the joke, you can ignore everything that happened after the |
| 32 |
first person mentioned "Dale" |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
-- |
| 35 |
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
Archives