Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
Tolkien quotes are mandatory? perl5's globals.c malloc.c perlio.c perly.c universal.c xsutils.c definitely fail then. Sounds like some urgent patches need submitting to p5p ;-)
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:57:10PM +, David Mitchell wrote: Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books, and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo strikes me as a good place to yank from, as does Zot!, but Pratchett will do too...) Err, would that be Larry's prerogative ??? And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ??? If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s read him :-) Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :) -- Roman M. Parparov - NASA EOSDIS project node at TAU technical manager. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.komkon.org/~romm Phone/Fax: +972-(0)3-6405205 (work), +972-(0)54-629-884 (home) -- The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books, and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo strikes me as a good place to yank from, as does Zot!, but Pratchett will do too...) Err, would that be Larry's prerogative ??? And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ??? If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s read him :-)
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ??? If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s read him :-) Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :) But Pratchet has 20+ books to his credit, so we need never run out of quotes :-)
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:06:49PM +, David Mitchell wrote: And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ??? If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s read him :-) Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :) But Pratchet has 20+ books to his credit, so we need never run out of quotes :-) As long as Terry Pratchett writes books faster than perl consumes quotes. Based on the fact that he's still very alive, we aren't in danger yet. However, Larry has already commented on the danger of running out of LOTR quotes: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-02/msg00369.html Nicholas Clark
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
At 05:57 PM 2/20/2001 +, David Mitchell wrote: Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books, and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo strikes me as a good place to yank from, as does Zot!, but Pratchett will do too...) Err, would that be Larry's prerogative ??? Yep, it would. Hence the call for a list of quotes from LOTR. :) And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ??? If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s read him :-) Sheesh, kids today. You can't even count on anyone having a misspent youth anymore... Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:43:11PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: My name (Merijn) is *from* Tolkien's dutch translation, so I'm a little biases if I state: "Stick with Tolkien". Well, I'm of to Mordor now ... http://www.prembone.com/mythtakes/shiresong.html -- "It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God." (By Matt Welsh)
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
Douglas Adams does seem rather more appropriate a source of quotes for software (anyone's, alas) than Pratchett. But Adams already has a software company. -Hao
Re: Tolkein (was Re: PDD for code comments ????)
Simply Hao wrote: Douglas Adams does seem rather more appropriate a source of quotes for software (anyone's, alas) than Pratchett. But Adams already has a software company. And Sirius pioneered the GPP in Perl 6.
