A quick c.l.p netiquette question

Duncan Booth duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Thu Sep 29 09:30:35 EDT 2005


Richie Hindle wrote:

> 
> [Peter]
>> Does it really have to be 158 lines to demonstrate these few issues?
> 
> I think you missed the other Peter's second post, where he points to
> his program: http://www.pick.ucam.org/~ptc24/yvfc.html
> 
> I didn't read every one of his 158 lines, but his code is pure poetry,
> or possibly triple-distilled evil, depending on your point of view. 
> 158 lines very well spent either way!
> 
Yes, but by his own admission he could have posted it as 1 rather longer 
line and it would have still worked (I verified this, it really does work 
as a single line Python program).

I must admit to being impressed, and also seriously concerned about Peter 
Corbett's sanity.



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