On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:22:29 +0100, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> magicus wrote: >> 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. >> > COBOL: it feels good when you stop. :-) > It certainly does! > (I was actually referring to the convention of all capitals representing > shouting.) I rarely shout and I thought that to this day it was still referred to as COBOL. I am still glad that I never pursued a career in dealing w/ such a language. ciao, f -- "What you resist, persists." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
