Dumb Newbie Questions -- 3 of N

[Jacques Hausser]

Le 2 mai 2009 à 23:57, François Chaplais a écrit :

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> Le 2 mai 09 à 23:10, Jim Bufalini a écrit :
>
>> Jacques Hausser wrote:
>>
>>> ...Every name in our pet programming
>>> language is an analogy: you don't plow your fields, you don't fasten
>>> your buttons, and you cannot tear your cards in little bits  
>>> (sometimes
>>> I wish to do just that ! ).
>>> And, to mention a linked question, in my view "parent script", whith
>>> it's heritability dye, was not less logical than "behavior", just
>>> emphasising (good english?) another characteristic of the same
>>> feature. I don't see one nickname as more logical than the other  
>>> one.
>>
>> And, let's not forget Stack. I mean what does that have to do with  
>> pancakes,
>> chimneys, or well-developed women? ;-)

or hay ? It's the place to seek for the famous needle...

> and what about revolution?   :-)))))))

Trois petits tours, et puis s'en vont,,,
A revolution is a circular move coming back to it's starting point, no ?

Metaphor is as dangerous as appealing. But you cannot do without.

Jacques


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