Re: kibo vs. rexx

Steven D. Majewski (sdm7g@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU)
Tue, 26 Apr 1994 17:16:58 GMT

In article <43492@mindlink.bc.ca>,
Charlie Gibbs <Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca> wrote:
>In article <Cosv99.Mon@world.std.com> kibo@world.std.com
>(James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
>
>>In article <2pcl4l$3eh@panix2.panix.com>, Murali <majcher@panix.com>
>wrote:
>>> I'm having an argument with my friend (who is not wacky) right
>>> now - we know that Larry Wall (probably) wrote perl, but he says that
>>> Kibo _didn't_ write Rexx! (or was that Spott?) Is that true?
>>
>>Actually, I wrote a shell when I was at Bell Labs. This is the origin
>>of the word 'kibosh', which is in every dictionary.
>>
>>Go look it up if you won't believe me.
>>
>>HA! HA! I was only trolling! There's NO such word as "kibosh"!!!
>
>Actually, a kibosh is a heavy box or trunk which is ceremoniously
>placed atop anything which is not to be discussed further, covering
>or squashing it in the process. Hence the term "putting the kibosh
>on" something, which is the North American equivalent of Monty Python's
>16-ton weight.
>
>Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
>"If you push something hard enough it will fall over."
> -- Fudd's First Law of Opposition
>

Why doesn't Python have a kibosh ?

( Or is that what you call an unterminated multi-line string literal ? )

>>> { 'spam':'spam', 'spam':'spam', 'spam':'spam' }
{'spam': 'spam'}
>>>

And *WHY* are we only limited to a SINGLE serving of SPAM!!!!!
Is this some strange side-effect of using hash tables to store
spam tables ?

Note that:

>>> kibo = [ 'kibo' ]
>>> kibo + kibo
kibokibo

While:

>>> kibo.append( kibo )

produces an unlimited supply of:

>>> kibo
['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['ki
bo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['kibo', ['
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