On 20 Sep 2009, at 23:11, Jason Dusek wrote:
Some day, we're going to need a short, catchy name for Cabal packages. Let's call them cabbages.
Not that this is a good reason to change your mind, but some sufficiently ancient Brits may remember a televisual entertainment programme in which kids competed to win prizes by answering questions (one prize per answer) until their arms could no longer contain the prizes and they dropped one. The prize for an incorrect answer was, of course, a cabbage (large, hard to hold on to, symbolic of failed social mobility). Probably the people who associate cabbages with error in this way are few in number. Perhaps larger in number are those who simply fear vegetables, or have unpleasant memories of being made to eat sulphurous overboiled cabbage on pain of no pudding. Cabbage is regarded by many as a punishment, compared to, say, an enviably juicy sheep. It's a mark of inability to afford the aforementioned sheep, or of a kind of holier-than-thou middle class faux-puritanism with pretentions to virtue. +1 Conor _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
