From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 537E4BC75 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:24:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1OFOuCs001513 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:24:57 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA11582 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:24:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from spalato.vuksan.com (spalato.vuksan.com [64.106.46.99]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1OFOt4h001504 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:24:56 +0100 Received: by spalato.vuksan.com (Postfix, from userid 534) id B6C252168A; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:24:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from mail.cs.unm.edu (mail.cs.unm.edu [64.106.20.33]) by spalato.vuksan.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4521D21672; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:24:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.unm.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC3BE40A8; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:14:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from mail.cs.unm.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05192-10; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:14:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from rhea.cs.unm.edu (rhea.cs.unm.edu [64.106.21.25]) by mail.cs.unm.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D37E40A7; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:14:11 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:24:52 -0700 (MST) From: "William D. Neumann" To: Oliver Bandel Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Camlp4 with traditional syntax (was: Camlp4 documentation) In-Reply-To: <20050224004748.GB461@first.in-berlin.de> Message-ID: References: <20050222102900.GA516@first.in-berlin.de> <20050224004748.GB461@first.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at cs.unm.edu X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 421DF1C8.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 421DF1C7.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 syntax:01 oliver:01 bandel:01 wrote:01 tokens:01 lisp:01 objective:02 neumann:02 neumann:02 cobol:02 programming:03 hint:05 thu:05 poorly:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Oliver Bandel wrote: > Hint: > > "Just as a picture is worth a thousands words, > so is a properly chosen program example." > > (Stephen G. Kochan, Programming in Objective C, page 2) And if I might add, in the other direction: "But a poorly chosen program example is not even worth the number of tokens it contains." (William D. Neumann, This e-mail, page 1) William D. Neumann --- "There's just so many extra children, we could just feed the children to these tigers. We don't need them, we're not doing anything with them. Tigers are noble and sleek; children are loud and messy." -- Neko Case Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers. -- Tony-A (some guy on /.)