[Tim]
> Man, you *are* Unfathomable <0.9 wink>! Even if true, you should
> never have admitted to it <0.1 wink>.
[Greg Wilson]
> I think that's supposed to be <wink fraction="0.9"/>, isn't it?
[Fredrik Lundh]
> not in this case. quoting a leading bot implementor:
>
> "We did requirements and task analysis, iterative
> design, and user testing. You'd almost think emails
> were an interface between people and bots."
>
> and I can assure you that proving that human beings don't
> like weird but formally well designed syntaxes was the easy
> part of that project... (but don't tell the schemers ;-)
Right on, effbot! "Bots Helping Bots" is our motto. I'm quite sure the
timbot's use of <wink> predates the Web's twisted formalization of what
originally started life as a typographic device in a snail-mail newsletter,
when the timbot discovered that "real people" had no idea what to make of
;-) style emoticons. User testing is exactly on target. Iterative design,
too: the timbot's original use of [grin] didn't work nearly as well. The
introduction of fractional winkery was actually a minor refinement, yet
widely promoted by intuitionists as if it were the key idea. Feh.
> </F>
>
> "Larry Wall should be shot. Along with Bill Joy and Eric Allman."
> -- Daniel Finster, on comp.lang.lisp
>
> "Why, just because you guys frittered away a 20-year headstart?"
> -- Larry Wall
Say what you will about Perl, but you gotta love Larry! I recently filed a
Perl bug that was apparently introduced the day Perl5 hit the streets and
somehow went unnoticed for years, and had a nice exchange with him. Looking
over other recent bugs, I stumbled into this one first:
@array = "0" .. -1;
That, of course, computes an array of 100 elements, "0" thru "99": the
string "0" gets magically autoincremented, as if it were an integer, until
the *length* of the resulting string exceeds the length of the string "-1".
That this wasn't justified as "a feature" gives me hope that Guido's
presence on earth has done *some* little bit of good <wink>.
time-for-an-oil-change-ly y'rs - tim
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