pprint: "...thank small children who sleep at night."

[Steve Holden]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> "Brian van den Broek" <broek at cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.297.1158706362.10491.python-list at python.org...
> 
>>Brian L. Troutwine said unto the world upon 19/09/06 05:30 PM:
>>
>>>The heading comment to pprint reads:
>>>
>>>#  This is a simple little module I wrote to make life easier.  I
>>>didn't
>>>#  see anything quite like it in the library, though I may have
>>>overlooked
>>>#  something.  I wrote this when I was trying to read some heavily
>>>nested
>>>#  tuples with fairly non-descriptive content.  This is modeled very
>>>much
>>>#  after Lisp/Scheme - style pretty-printing of lists.  If you find it
>>>#  useful, thank small children who sleep at night.
>>>
>>>Is the last sentence an obscure reference or in-joke? Can someone
>>>explain it? I don't get it.
>>>
>>
>>Maybe it is an in-joke or reference that's blowing past me. But, I would 
>>assume that the author has kids whose sound sleep at night left him or her 
>>the time to code the module.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Brian vdB
> 
> 
> Why don't you write the author and ask?  His name and e-mail are right in 
> the header, just before the lines that you cited.
> 
Knowing Fred, he was probably too busy earning a living to write the 
code during the day and too conscientious to leave his kids alone to 
write it during the evening.

Good job, Fred (Fred is *way* under-appreciated).

regards
  Steve
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