carpe linguam

[Fredrik Lundh]

<krodgers at tdyryan.com> wrote:
> > maybe we should add a note to the newsgroup FAQ?
> >
> > </F>
> 
> The comp.lang.fortran FAQ once had (maybe still has; I haven't looked at
> it in a while) an entry titled something like "Why are there useless
> debates?" that centered on a certain person at Purdue . . .

oh, I imagined something like "if you stumble upon some-
thing that looks like a flame, either ignore it altogether,
or work hard to make your answer pythonic rather than
pythogenic.  be extra careful if the poster is called
apollo, or has perl in the domain name".  or something.

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