On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > > The competent programmer [...] > avoids clever tricks like the > plague. -- (-dsger |)ijkstra >
The line break here made me read this as "avoids clever tricks, for example the plague" on first parsing, and I was wondering how I could have used the plague in this month's problem. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
