[Python-Dev] RE: Adding decimal (aka FixedPoint) numbers to Python

[Greg Ewing]

Michael McLay <mmclay@comcast.net>:

> Let's go easy on the kiwis. They don't always get their due. It
> looks like "Mad" Pearse [1] may have flown before the Wright
> bothers, but since he was a perfectionist he did not try to claim
> the title. <wink>

Most people seem to agree that he managed to get off the ground, which
was a non-trivial achievement at the time, but it wasn't what you
would call a controlled flight.  The Wrights were still the first to
actually make a plane go where *they* wanted it to go. :-)

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