PythonLabs Team Moves to Digital Creations

Thaddeus L. Olczyk olczyk at interaccess.com
Tue Oct 31 02:11:36 EST 2000


On 30 Oct 2000 13:39:45 GMT, m.faassen at vet.uu.nl (Martijn Faassen)
wrote:

>William Tanksley <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 19:41:10 GMT, tim_one at email.msn.com wrote:
>>>Python's direction will still be set by Guido.  Rights to our Python
>>>(etc -- Jython/Mailman) work will be assigned to the PSF (to Guido,
>>>until the PSF exists), establishing a strong legal wall between Python
>>>(etc) and DC's (or anyone else's) particular private interests.
>
>> Out of curiosity, will there be any reorganization in the secret and
>> completely nonexistant Python Underground?  I've been working on my
>> lead-pipe swinging, so if you -- I mean someone -- need(s) an enforcer
>> just ask for my resume'.
>
>Good thing you asked. All these moves were planned in detail by the PSU,
>in preparation for the alien nanovirus invasion, which is going to
>happen between 2005 and 2025 (current best continuum sliding timescale
>estimate). The Roswell versions of Gordon and Tim (after the time
>travel accident) are precisely timing the planned collision of Microsoft and
>the US government. It's tricky, as the value of the euro must be at an exact
>point compared to the dollar, but they'll work it out. 
>
>The new danger are the self-replicating anti-regexes. We're not quite
>sure how to deal with those. The syntactic substructure of the universe
>may be adversely affected, and we can't just reserve the polarity like
>in star trek. Their origins are still being investigated, but there are
>indications they are an anachronistic pollution by a cross-temporal version of
>Perl 6.
>
>Oh, and you never read this message. The PSU does NOT exist.
>
>Usenet-will-self-destruct-in-10-seconds-ly yours,
>
>Martijn

Fine. And I have not replied to this post^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H anypost
about the underground.



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