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

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@digicool.com
Tue, 22 May 2001 18:57:40 -0400 (EDT)

"MWH" == Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

MWH> Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com> writes:

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

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

There's a similar saw about excerpts of books in foreign languages. I believe I first read it in reference to Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, which starts with a full page of Hebrew.

Jeremy