At 9:54 AM -0700 10/25/02, Larry Wall wrote:
Suppose you have a system in which all farm animals are classified into the same category, and distinguished by one letter in their name. All farm animals begin with, say, "snarfu". So we get: ...
A similar problem exists with street names. Some housing developments use very similar names for all of their streets, causing quite a bit of confusion for newcomers. On a slightly larger scale, a short stretch of Interstate 280 (in the SF Bay Area) has the following offramps:
Farm Hill Page Mill Sand Hill that is, /.a.. .ill/. -r -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection
