Style: global configuration data

[Mike Fletcher]

Our new laundry detergent whitens your whites and blackens your blacks!  It
even programs Python while you sleep!

:o),
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Williams [mailto:sandj.williams at gte.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 2:46 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Style: global configuration data


Michael Hudson's sig block says:

> --
> 59. In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in
>     our programming languages.
>   -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

Lermontov's poem Parus (The Sail) starts out the with Russian word for white
(Byelo) used as a verb:

(Byelyeet Parus odinaky. . .)

Maybe Perlis knows how to 'verb' the word white, but I sure don't.  Shines?
Glistens?  Glitters? Coruscates?  Bleaches?  Blanches?  Whites?  I don't
think
so.

Hyperbole is the greatest invention of mankind.

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