Python and Flaming Thunder

bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com
Wed May 14 16:27:43 EDT 2008


On 14 mai, 00:41, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
(snip)
> IIRC the idea was so that managers could write programs in English. It
> failed because nobody could write a parser that would handle something
> like "The bottom line is that the stakeholder group requires the
> situation going forward to be such as to facilitate the variable known
> as x to provide the same outcome when stimulated by dereferencing as the
> variable known as y".

John, I usually don't agree much with both what you say and how you
say it, but I must admit that this one is, well... just brillant !-)

(IOW: rofl, keyboard, and +1 QOTW)



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