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March 29, 2009
Funny Amusing, Funny Amazing and The Smarts
Funny Amusing and Funny Amazing ... that was the title of a paper back book that Dad bought for half a crown when I was young, and it was so much fun looking down the rib-tickling things on the left had side of each spread, and the jaw-dropping things on the right.
It's funny [amusing] how one word can have several meanings - indeed, when I'm running Perl courses, I often write on the board "Reading ..." and ask people to pronounce the word. Of course, I could complete the sentence with "is a place" and it would be 'Redding', or "is a skill" in which case it would be 'Reeding'.
And in Perl ...
@reading is a list where each element is a separate scalar or
@reading is a scalar which is the number of elements in a list or
@reading (in quotes) is a string which comprises all the members of the list joined together into a scalar, with a space between each of them.
How did I come up with this article today? Chris tells me that two smart delelegates have checked in already (isn't Skype great!) and I respond with "I have better not come in to work in jeans and teashirt." But it turns out that he was meaning Smart (Intelligent) rather than Smart (Well Dressed).
Posted by gje at March 29, 2009 08:12 PM