On 25/03/10 07:22, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 03/24/2010 12:57 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu"<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message
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On 03/24/2010 08:28 AM, bearophile wrote:
As
they say: "Those who cannot learn from C# are doomed to re-invent it,
often badly."
Who are "they"?
He was modifying the common expression "Those who don't learn from the
past
are doomed to repeat it."
But paraphrasing ain't "as they say" because they don't say that.
Besides, I thought he's paraphrasing "Any sufficiently complicated C or
Fortran program contains a buggy implementation of Common Lisp." But I
guess that's just me being cranky - I'm sick.
"those who do not understand unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."