Author: Stuart Hurley
Posted: 2003-12-05 04:55:00 Link
Pete
What a tease!
Before I even got to end of your post I was searching the archive for that
URL. Remind me not to read any of your emails around April 1st. Back to
studying tuples...
regards
Stuart Hurley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Theisen" <petet@acun.com>
To: <profox@leafe.com>; <prolinux@leafe.com>; <propython@leafe.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: [ProPython] Holiday Gift from Paul McNett and Ed Leafe
> Hi Everybody!
>
> Found myself reading email yesterday AM after work, well past my bedtime,
> when I saw this evocative post: "Holiday Gift from Paul McNett and Ed
> Leafe". I was thinking I have to break off and get some sleep to be at
> least *awake* for my afternoon appointment, but, oh, I have to read this
> one . . .
>
> It was a URL. It loaded like the wind - no graphics, all text. It was a
web
> app called "The Thing". A little text description was to the effect that
> Paul and Ed hoped we would like this holiday gift to the community - an
> online application checker/translator, along with the holiday wish that
> this would help people get work done, understand all the stuff we have to
> understand and maybe even make money. All thought of sleep suddenly
vanished.
>
> There was an "input box" labeled "paste your code or text here", a
dropdown
> "identify the best description of your input" the choices were FoxPro
code,
> .net code, Python code, pseudocode, other code, text, [OT] and Sheep.
>
> Then there was an "output" dropdown labeled "select your desired output"
> and those choices were correct FoxPro code, correct .net code, correct
> Python code, correct other code, good text, logical, intelligent [OT] and
> Sheep. Then there was an "output display window".
>
> Finally there were a series of controls, test, create .exe, create Windows
> setup file, create Linux package, create web application. I thought, I
have
> to *try* this right now.
>
> So I did! First I plunked in my eight year's work of failed FoxPro code,
> chose correct Python code and out it came, in seconds! I pressed the test
> control and the program sprang upon the screen, just as I had always
> dreamed that it someday would. I played with it for a few minutes and
found
> to my delight that it was just what I had always wanted, everything worked
> and worked ever so well.
>
> Then, I popped in one of the most overbearing ad-hominem [OT] posts I
could
> find on my hard drive, chose logical, intelligent [OT] and out came a most
> reasoned, objective version. Remarkable considering that Paul avoids [OT]
> and Ed has a point of view that is usually to the D side, but there it
was.
>
> Then I popped in the Gettysburg address, and it came back unchanged. I got
> to thinking, this is not just software, this is *artificial intelligence*
> and they are just giving it to the world for a holiday present!
>
> Well, before I did anything else I created a directory to receive my
> completed project, courtesy of Paul and Ed. Just as I was about to press
> "create web application" the power to the house went out long enough to
> crash the old clunker. I don't use my home computer very often and I
> haven't bothered with a UPS, bad me. When I rebooted and got back to
> Eudora, the post, the URL, all of it was gone, checked the archives - no
> sign. I started to post a message about "what was that URL . . . " Then I
> woke up in bed, I'd dreamed the whole thing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
>
Author: Pete Theisen
Posted: 2003-12-05 05:46:00 Link
Hi Stuart!
You think you were teased, I really did dream that dream.
Regards,
Pete
At 09:14 AM 12/5/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Pete
>
>What a tease!
>
>Before I even got to end of your post I was searching the archive for that
>URL. Remind me not to read any of your emails around April 1st. Back to
>studying tuples...
>
>regards
>
>Stuart Hurley
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pete Theisen" <petet@acun.com>
>To: <profox@leafe.com>; <prolinux@leafe.com>; <propython@leafe.com>
>Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:40 AM
>Subject: [ProPython] Holiday Gift from Paul McNett and Ed Leafe
>
>
>> Hi Everybody!
>>
>> Found myself reading email yesterday AM after work, well past my bedtime,
>> when I saw this evocative post: "Holiday Gift from Paul McNett and Ed
>> Leafe". I was thinking I have to break off and get some sleep to be at
>> least *awake* for my afternoon appointment, but, oh, I have to read this
>> one . . .
>>
>> It was a URL. It loaded like the wind - no graphics, all text. It was a
>web
>> app called "The Thing". A little text description was to the effect that
>> Paul and Ed hoped we would like this holiday gift to the community - an
>> online application checker/translator, along with the holiday wish that
>> this would help people get work done, understand all the stuff we have to
>> understand and maybe even make money. All thought of sleep suddenly
>vanished.
>>
>> There was an "input box" labeled "paste your code or text here", a
>dropdown
>> "identify the best description of your input" the choices were FoxPro
>code,
>> .net code, Python code, pseudocode, other code, text, [OT] and Sheep.
>>
>> Then there was an "output" dropdown labeled "select your desired output"
>> and those choices were correct FoxPro code, correct .net code, correct
>> Python code, correct other code, good text, logical, intelligent [OT] and
>> Sheep. Then there was an "output display window".
>>
>> Finally there were a series of controls, test, create .exe, create Windows
>> setup file, create Linux package, create web application. I thought, I
>have
>> to *try* this right now.
>>
>> So I did! First I plunked in my eight year's work of failed FoxPro code,
>> chose correct Python code and out it came, in seconds! I pressed the test
>> control and the program sprang upon the screen, just as I had always
>> dreamed that it someday would. I played with it for a few minutes and
>found
>> to my delight that it was just what I had always wanted, everything worked
>> and worked ever so well.
>>
>> Then, I popped in one of the most overbearing ad-hominem [OT] posts I
>could
>> find on my hard drive, chose logical, intelligent [OT] and out came a most
>> reasoned, objective version. Remarkable considering that Paul avoids [OT]
>> and Ed has a point of view that is usually to the D side, but there it
>was.
>>
>> Then I popped in the Gettysburg address, and it came back unchanged. I got
>> to thinking, this is not just software, this is *artificial intelligence*
>> and they are just giving it to the world for a holiday present!
>>
>> Well, before I did anything else I created a directory to receive my
>> completed project, courtesy of Paul and Ed. Just as I was about to press
>> "create web application" the power to the house went out long enough to
>> crash the old clunker. I don't use my home computer very often and I
>> haven't bothered with a UPS, bad me. When I rebooted and got back to
>> Eudora, the post, the URL, all of it was gone, checked the archives - no
>> sign. I started to post a message about "what was that URL . . . " Then I
>> woke up in bed, I'd dreamed the whole thing.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pete
>>>
>