[REBOL] Re: parse question
From: robbo1mark:aol at: 27-Jun-2001 12:39
Joel,
Aha! now I see & understand!
I prefer Terrapins myself, much more cute IMHO.
I seem to remember a thread on this list ages & ages
ago about Which Animal? should O'Reiily use for some future O'Reilly Safari book, which
would formally make REBOL "recognized officially" as a language.
Would it be a turtle? I can't remember which animal, if anything, was selected?
Anybody else got a better memory?
cheers,
Mark Dickson
PS If this debate wasn't settled then by all means lets start it all up again!
In a message dated Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:31:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Joel Neely <[joel--neely--fedex--com]>
writes:
<< Hi, Mark,
[Robbo1Mark--aol--com] wrote:
> Joel,
>
> this is offtopic & offbeat, but I'm just curious,
> you seem to mention "turtles" quite a lot! any reason?
>
Old joke:
Prominent scientist gives a lecture on the space program.
Little old lady comes up afterwards to speak with him.
LOL: That was all very interesting, but it's nonsense.
Everybody knows that the earth is flat and rests on
the back of a giant turtle.
PS [humoring her]: Well, what does that turtle stand on?
LOL: Each of his feet is on the back of another giant turtle.
PS: Well, what do THEY stand on?
LOL: Now, young man, you can't trick me. From there, it's
turtles all the way down!
Somehow it seemed appropriate in the context of
Language X
implemented in
Language Y
compiled to
Assembler
implemented in
Microcode
which manipulates
Function blocks
implemented in
Solid state circuitry
dependent on
Quantum mechanics
.. ;-)
-jn-
It's turtles all the way down!
joel'dot'neely'at'fedex'dot'com
