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Thanks! (Score:1)

by babbage (2619)

Wow, 20 answers. Very thoroough -- thanks, Dan :)
So, which was the "the answer is X, but you're really asking about Y question?"

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- Re:Thanks! (Score:2, Informative)
  
  by Elian (119)
  
  No problem, though next time I think I'll go for a smaller number. :)
  
  And the "X, but Y" question was #6. French impressionist painters are rarely considered as inspiration for software...
  - Parrot inspiration (Score:2, Funny)
    
    by rafael (2125)
    
    Having artistic guidelines is fine. Just let me hope that James Joyce's Finnegans Wake will never inspire a Parrot or Perl6 core developer!
    - Re:Parrot inspiration (Score:2, Funny)
      
      by chicks (2930) <chicks@chicks.net> on 2002.05.07 11:09 (#8093) Homepage Journal
      
      It makes one wonder: Did Tolstoy inspire COBOL? Did Salvador Dalí inspire PostScript? Did Picasso inspire LISP? Did Melville's Moby Dick inspire BASIC? Oh, the possibilities are endless.
      
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      - Re:Parrot inspiration (Score:2, Funny)
        
        by rafael (2125)
        
        LISP for sure was inspired by Raymond Roussel's experimental (and unreadable) poem Nouvelles Impressions d'Afrique [almaleh.com] . Up to 12 levels of nested parentheses.

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