Re: [TCLUG-DEVEL:93] Ptah

[George Swan <g-swan@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

At 11:54 AM 2/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>> >is somewhat less pretentious and a little more obscure, but much harder
>>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>       well not to me or you ..... (or Linus T., while we're at
>>       it... :-)
>
>	Well, that's the reason I gave it serious consideration, despite
>the fact that typing 'illmarinen <progname>' isn't something people
>would really want to do all the time.  :-)
>
I wonder if there is an epithet for Illmarinen, or a shorter name,
somewhere in the Kalevala--like "the smith" ???

I'll have to read some more--it's been more than 5 years since I read it,
and I cannot remember.

   ....meanwhile, I'll let you go ahead and be the Python Poet. :-)
   (I took a look at it; it seemed a more concise language than perl (for
as much as I know about programming languages), but I didn't have time to
keep going with it.)

Later,

gs

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