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<p class='quotation' id='q88'>I believe sometimes numbers creep
into my programs as strings, so '4'/2 needs to also be 2. Other
languages do this. Since this is due in part to user input, I guess
'four'/2, 'quattro/2', 'iv/2' etc. need to be 2 as well; don't know
any other language that does so, but Python could take the lead
here in software reliability. Any white space should be ignored,
including between my ears. I don't have time to write any useful
software, so I've decided to devote myself to proposing various
changes to the Python interpreter.</p>
<p class='source'>Donn Cave uses sarcasm with devastating effect,
28 Aug 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q89'>
then-again-if-history-were-important-god-wouldn't-have-hid-
it-in-the- past-ly y'rs</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 28 Aug 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q90'>
&gt; &gt;( float ( / 1 3 ))
&gt; 0.33333333333333331
Now <em>that</em> one is impressive: it's the best possible
17-digit decimal representation of the best possible 53-bit fp
binary representation of 1/3, and 17 is the minimum number of
decimal digits you need in general so that a 53-bit binary fp value
can be exactly reconstructed by a best-possible atof.
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 2 Sep 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q91'>This is not a technical issue so much
as a human issue; we are limited and so is our time. (Is this a bug
or a feature of time? Careful; trick question!)</p>
<p class='source'>Fred Drake on the Documentation SIG, 9 Sep
1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q92'>There are also some surprises [in the
late Miocene Australia] some small mammals totally unknown and not
obviously related to any known marsupial (appropriately awarded
names such as <i>Thingodonta</i> and <i>Weirdodonta</i>) and a
giant python immortalized as <i>Montypythonoides</i>.</p>
<p class='source'><cite>The Book of Life</cite>, found by Aaron
Watters</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q93'>Can the denizens of this group
enlighten me about what the advantages of Python are, versus Perl
?
"python" is more likely to pass unharmed
through your spelling checker than "perl".</p>
<p class='source'>An unknown poster and Fredrik Lundh, 11 Sep
1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q94'>I have to say that the Dragon book is
good when you consider the alternatives, but compared with the
Platonic ideal it leaves much to be desired. In particular the
algorithm descriptions are described at such a low level it's
difficult to understand how they work -- and at a higher conceptual
level involving graph theoretical transforms of automata (which I
got thanks to Jean Gallier by word of mouth and effort of chalk) is
nearly invisible for the trees.</p>
<p class='source'>Aaron Watters, 17 Sep 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q95'>... and at a higher conceptual level
involving graph theoretical transforms of automata (which I got
thanks to Jean Gallier by word of mouth and effort of chalk)
...</p>
<p class='source'>Aaron Watters, 17 Sep 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q96'>Every clarity vanished? :-)</p>
<p class='source'>Christian Tismer, after answering a poster's
question, 17 Sep 1998</p>
<p class='quotation' id='q97'>Take the "public" modifier off
Joseph's interface, or leave it there but nest the interface inside
class "closure", or even move the interface to its own printer.java
file, and it compiles and runs without incident. Most of the big
boys I hang with aren't paralyzed by self-explanatory compiler msgs
&lt;wink&gt;.
not-to-mention-the-girls-ly y'rs</p>
<p class='source'>Tim Peters, 24 Sep 1998</p>
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