On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:02 +0100, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> On Monday 27 July 2009 16:49:25 Aahz wrote: >>> In article <mailman.3765.1248685391.8015.python-l...@python.org>, >>> >>> Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> wrote: >>>> On Sunday 26 July 2009 21:26:46 David Robinow wrote: >>>>> I'm a mediocre programmer. Does this mean I should switch to PHP? >>>> I have searched, but I can find nothing about this mediocre language. >>>> >>>> Could you tell us more? >>>> >>> :-P >>> >>> (For anyone who is confused by Hendrik's humor, he is saying that >>> David was referring to a programming language named "mediocre". >>> English grammar is confusing!) >> >> This is true - I intended, when I started the post, to make a crack >> about how he knew that he was mediocre - If there were some exam or >> test that you have to pass or fail to be able to make the claim to >> mediocrity. I was imagining a sort of devil's rating scale for >> programmers, that could cause one to say things like: "I am studying >> hard so that I can get my mediocre certificate, and one day I hope to >> reach hacker rank". >> >> And then the similarity to "I am a COBOL programmer" struck me, and I >> abandoned the ratings. >> > If you were a "COBOL" programmer, would you want to shout about it? :-) The last time I wrote anything in COBOL was sometime in the early 80s. Somehow that makes me feel good, heh. ciao, f -- “Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.” -- Tom Robbins -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
