Python and Flaming Thunder

[J. Cliff Dyer]

On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 13:27 -0700, bruno.desthuilliers at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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Agreed.  Best.  Synonym.  EVAR.  

(I won't give away the fun by saying what it's a synonym for)

Cheers,
Cliff