[ANNOUNCE] Garbage collection for Python
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Apr 16 15:59:23 EDT 2000
Christian Tismer <tismer at tismer.com> writes:
> > I cam across a great quote the other day; I think it was attributed to
> > Alan Perlis, and it was:
> >
> > Simplicity follows complexity, not the other way round.
>
> Thank you a lot, it was exactly the quote I was trying
> to look up, but I didn't find it again. It is very true.
Actually from
http://www.cs.yale.edu/~perlis-alan/quotes.html
we find:
31. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
so I got the wording slightly wrong. The intent's clear though.
now-wait-while-I-add-most-of-those-to-my-sig-file-ly y'rs
Michael
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