[Python-Dev] FP vs. tutorial (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
22 May 2001 23:07:12 +0100

Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com> writes:

Who was it that said every equation will halve your audience?

It was Stephen Hawking's editor when he was preparing A Brief History Of Time (or at least, it gets mentioned in the preface; the advice may be older).

Cheers, M.

-- 7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. -- Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html