XML Considered Harmful

[Avi Gross]

Not lucky at all, Michael. The problem is he published a number of things
with Paul Erdős a few years after I got my degrees and went to Bell
laboratories. I never met Erdős but he was prolific and had 507 people
publish with him as co-authors. I would have loved to as I also speak
languages he spoke including Hungarian and Math.

Well, time to get back to something remotely about Python. Is there any
concept of a Rossum Number where anyone who worked directly with Guido Van
Rossum is a 1 (or True or truthy) and ...

Hey I just realized my Berners-Lee number might be 1 but it was so long ago
we worked on what Hypertext should look like, ...

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From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avigross=verizon.net at python.org> On
Behalf Of Michael F. Stemper
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:41 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: XML Considered Harmful

On 28/09/2021 13.27, Avi Gross wrote:
> Well, Michael, if you want to go back to the eighties, and people you 
> worked with, I did my Thesis with a professor who later had an Erdős
number of 1!
> Too bad I never got around to publishing something with him or I could 
> have been a 2!

Lucky you. If a paper that a friend of mine is submitting to various
journals gets accepted by one of them, I'll end up with a 4 or 5 through
him. However, as the months pass, it's looking more like mine will end up
NaN.

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