A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 06:19:16 GMT, > Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My attempts at simple came in closer to the life insurance than >>Lincoln -- forget about Hemingway; the only way I could approach his >>writing was to stick to: Hello World; Good day; See you later; Bye. > > > A quote I like: > > I like long and unusual words, and anybody who does not share my tastes is > not compelled to read me. Policemen and politicians are under some > obligation to make themselves comprehensible to the intellectually > stunted, but not I. Let my prose be tenebrous and rebarbative; let my > pennyworth of thought be muffled in gorgeous habilements; lovers of Basic > English will look to me in vain. > -- Robertson Davies, _Marchbanks' Garland_
Hmmm... So Robertson Davies programmed in Perl? ;-) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list