Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 17)

[Peter Hansen]

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> In article <7h31y16jchm.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk>, Michael Hudson
> <mwh at python.net> writes
> ..
> .....
> >ll be unnecessary?
> >
> >93. When someone says "I want a programming language in which I
> >    need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
> >  -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
> >
> >Cheers,
> >M.
> >
> well I guess we could say everything is encoded in pi so we should just
> say pi (or e or any other transcendental ..........zzzzz)

Ah, you've been reading Contact again, haven't you?  :-)