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

>>>

>