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

[Brian van den Broek]

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