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Re: [pygame] Linux binaries
On Nov 5, 2008, at 4:48 PM, yanom @linuxmail.org wrote:
What's Bogosort?
Back in my day, we didn't have Wikipedia, we had the Jargon file, and
we LIKED it. (Note that although if I am really to show my age, I have
to decry the Eric Raymond "update" which, to a large extent, diluted
the winnage of the original. But the original does not have an entry
for Bogo-Sort, so there you go.)
http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bogo-sort.html
It is highly educational and entertaining to read these old
repositories of wordplay and politics. For instance, you probably have
always frobbed things (it's part of the hacker DNA), but now you can
understand the distinction between frobbing, twiddling, and tweaking,
and this might actually come in handy at some point. See also the
story about Magic in the Appendix.