Thanks for Python...

[Andrew Dalke]

Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> said, concerning Boris Borcic  <zorro at zipzap.ch>'s
suggestion that _THHGttG_ (quoted by
Andrew Kuchling) was a rebuttal to the _Matrix_:

> _THHGttG_ was written so long before _Matrix_ that if anything
> it's the other way 'round.

  But if the world is a giant computer run by white mice as
Hitchhiker's says, then wouldn't there be time travel?  From a
rough memory, the Guide lifted text from a ceral company then
went back in time and sued the company for copyright infringement.

  So after The Matrix came out, the mice went back in time and
had (pursuaded, brainwashed, induced, etc.) Douglas Adams to
write the book then got it turned into a movie.

  Oh, you think time goes *that* way -- Mostly Harmless (paraphrased)

						Andrew Dalke
						dalke at acm.org