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Subject: Re: Is Python "venerable"?
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Steve Simmons <square.steve@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 20/02/2013 12:03, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013, at 11:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> And even us old (78) farts are calling things Kewl now.
>>
>> 78??? Is that the year you were born or the years since you were born?
>>
>> -a
>
> Yeah, 2078 - Marty McFly, Back From the Future.   Kewl !!  ;-)

Flux capacitor is... uhh... fluxing?
-- Marty, lampshading the whole "we don't really care how this thing
works but it does" thing

ChrisA