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From: tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters)
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 07:54:58 GMT
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Subject: Python Chip
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In-Reply-To: <3703D175.85747FEE@pop.vet.uu.nl>
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References: <3703D175.85747FEE@pop.vet.uu.nl>
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Message-ID: <000501be7da7$450ddf20$879e2299@tim>
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Content-Length: 1613
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[Martijn Faassen]
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> This isn't official, but have you all heard about the Python chip?
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> ... [recklessly premature disclosure deleted] ...
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[Chad Netzer]
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> April fools, right?
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[Martin]
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> No, no, this is as serious as a ten ton weight! Just ask Tim about the
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> stress tests if you still don't believe it. :)
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>
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> Is-it-april-already-ly yours,
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As Martijn reported, the stress tests are going *amazingly* well, modulo a
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subtle space/tab screwup in the hardware. I've completed VLSINANNY.py,
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which will verify future hardware conformance to generally accepted
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international leading whitespace principles, but the Russian part of the
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team is refusing to cooperate in protest of Kosovo (although if you ask me,
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they're just pissed at the Swedes for sneaking herring into the borscht ...
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again).
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Delicate international diplomacy aside, the tests are *so* promising that
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the Steering Committee has delayed announcement of the 1999 Pythonic Award,
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pending completion of a successful run of GuidoStone.py, a full real-time 3D
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simulation of a gawky Dutchman throwing rocks at a Sicilian mobster, from
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the back of a galloping camel. This was supposed to complete yesterday, but
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was interrupted when Larry Wall ran up from the back of the room and smashed
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the chip with his bare hands. Guido-- the very definition of grace under
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pressure --quipped "But, Larry, *we've* known for a decade that you've
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wasted your life!", and pulled a backup chip out of his sneer.
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The most important thing, though, is that until they say otherwise, I'm
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*still* the Only Living Pythonic Award winner!
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no-joking-matter-ly y'rs - tim
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