Paid to work in Python? (was: Re: Choice Of Language)
Siggy Brentrup
bsb at winnegan.de
Fri Apr 7 13:06:09 EDT 2000
ngps at madcap.dyndns.org (Ng Pheng Siong) writes:
> According to Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton <nospam.newton at gmx.li>:
> > (The German term "eierlegende Wollmilchsau"[1] comes to mind.)
> >
> > [1] literally, "egg-laying wool-milk-sow [female pig]", i. e., something
> > that tries to do too much at once.
>
> I once saw a German term that was translated to "improve-worse-ment."
>
> Can some one provide the German word, please?
I guess you mean Ver-schlimm-besserung (remove dashes), but thats a worsening
correction. You won't find it in dictionaries though.
Siggy
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