Re: Python

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Mar 2026 20:37:50 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.python
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 21:29:30 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2026-03-04 21:01, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Michael F. Stemper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I encountered a perverse version of that. My (US) employer was
>>> purchased by a German firm. We began adapting their code base for
>>> NAFTA market requirements. The good news was that every comment
>>> was written twice: once in German and once in English.
>>>
>>> The bad news? I knew enough German to be able to tell that the two
>>> paired comments sometimes disagreed on what was being done or how
>>> it was done.
>>
>> A man with one clock knows what time it is. A man with two is never
>> quite sure...
>
> Experimental science would not agree.

Fallacious analogy, for sure.