OpenSource documentation problems
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Fri Sep 2 11:03:28 EDT 2005
A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 06:19:16 GMT,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> My attempts at simple came in closer to the life insurance than
>>Lincoln -- forget about Hemingway; the only way I could approach his
>>writing was to stick to: Hello World; Good day; See you later; Bye.
>
>
> A quote I like:
>
> I like long and unusual words, and anybody who does not share my tastes is
> not compelled to read me. Policemen and politicians are under some
> obligation to make themselves comprehensible to the intellectually
> stunted, but not I. Let my prose be tenebrous and rebarbative; let my
> pennyworth of thought be muffled in gorgeous habilements; lovers of Basic
> English will look to me in vain.
> -- Robertson Davies, _Marchbanks' Garland_
Hmmm... So Robertson Davies programmed in Perl? ;-)
-Peter
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