On Tuesday 24 January 2017 15:41, Chris Angelico wrote: > Remember: If you have only one clock, it might be right and it might > be wrong, but it's consistent. If you have two clocks and they > disagree, you have no clue what the time is.
During the golden age of sail, there was a saying, never go to sea with two chronometers. Take one, or three, but never two. Obviously the lesson here is that programming languages should have *three* ways of setting out the structure: if condition: { BEGIN code goes here } END > [1] Wonder how many of today's generation of programmers have actually > heard a record skip... Haven't you heard? Vinyl is making a comeback. Seriously. -- Steven "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." - Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list