Sydney scoreboard?

[Timothy Docker]

"Mark Hammond" <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:

> This is correct.  The same software is also being run at the SCG and
> at Olympic stadium for non olympic events.  Also at the new Colonial
> stadium in Melbourne, and even the Westpac stadium in Auckland!
> Python is taking over this half of the world :-)
> 
> Python is a very natural fit for this application - since embedding
> Python the software can do for the operators what they could only
> dream - in fact, I am constantly surprised how the operators have
> abused the embedded interpreter to do things that I wouldnt have
> thought feasable!

Does that include setting the scoreboard on fire ? :-) I remember this 
happening sometime last season.	 Dramatic photos at

	http://www.afl.com.au/photos/round_164.htm

(search for "fire" on that page)

Presumably this was not a software failure, but it brings a more
concrete meaning to software "crash and burn".



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Tim Docker                               timd at macquarie.com.au
Quantative Applications Division
Macquarie Bank