OT: World's oldest ritual discovered. Worshipped the python 70, 000 years ago
http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english (-: Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
Oleg Broytmann wrote:
http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english
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Oleg.
I noticed the other day that the word "Pythonic" means "Prophetic", according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition: Py*thon"ic (?), a. [L. pythonicus, Gr. . See Pythian.] Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events. So, in the future, when someone says that a particular feature isn't "pythonic", what they are really saying is that the feature isn't a good indicator of things to come, which implies that such statements are self-fulfilling prophesies. Which means that statements about whether a particular language feature is pythonic are themselves pythonic. -- Talin
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:34:22AM -0800, Talin wrote:
I noticed the other day that the word "Pythonic" means "Prophetic",
This is, of course, due to the Greek mythology and the oracle at Delphi! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28mythology%29 Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
Talin wrote:
Oleg Broytmann wrote:
http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english
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Oleg.
I noticed the other day that the word "Pythonic" means "Prophetic", according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition:
Py*thon"ic (?), a. [L. pythonicus, Gr. . See Pythian.] Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.
Surely it is. The PSU once used the time machine to travel to Ancient Greece and gave the Delphi priestess her name, along with a schoolbook about ancient histo
On Dec 2, 2006, at 8:02 AM, Georg Brandl wrote:
Surely it is. The PSU once used the time machine to travel to Ancient Greece and gave the Delphi priestess her name, along with a schoolbook about ancient histo
The PSU does not, nor ever has existed. Any statement implying otherwise is false and subversive. There is no PSU and even if there is, it has no influence whatsoev
Frank Lomax wrote:
The PSU does not, nor ever has existed. Any statement implying otherwise is false and subversive. There is no PSU and even if there is, it has no influence whatsoev
it's a bit interesting that every time someone writes something along those lines, their computer's Power Supply Unit always gives up halfway through the last sentence
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