Re: YAML and its parsers

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: YAML and its parsers
Date: 13:58 on 24 Jun 2006
> You know the clichéd anecdote about how the US space programme
> spent millions of dollars creating a pen that can write upside
> down and underwater when they discovered that normals pens don't
> work in zero G, and the Russians just used pencils?

The US space program did no such thing. The Fisher Pen Company did, and
made a mint out of the "space pen". Before the space pen, both Americans
and Russians used pencils. Afterwards, they both used the space pen.

Why?

You really want flecks of wood and graphite dust floating around in zero
gee? The graphite accumulating on your circuit boards and shorting things
out, and the wood's flammable, and they started out with a pure oxygen
atmosphere.

Uh-uh.

There's stuff above here

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