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

[Adam Jones]

Brian L. Troutwine wrote:
> 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.

My guess is that he had to write a pretty printer so his cursing and
general frustration and reading nasty nested tuples wouldn't wake the
kids.

-Adam