🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <20070711.1914.70706097snz$@i-m-t.demon.co.uk>
           v$af$ppint@i-m-t.demon.co.uk "ppint. at IMT" writes:

>    - hi; in dipspc article, <1183751565snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
>      pete@nospam.demon.co.uk confessed, declared and observed:
..
> >Still haven't found the opportunity to test the new code (which 
> >is so ugly it simply _has_ to work ;-) )
> 
>         - an interesting principle, the - or at least an - exact
>         inverse of the principle used to make first evaluations
>         of the designs of such aeroplanes, as the vickers-super-
>         marine spitfire and the de haviland mosquito: that their
>         lines were so beautiful, they *had* to be right...

Indeed so and I'm sure few would disagree.  I would even include 
the DH Comet (the air racer, not the airliner) in that list.  But 
at the other end of the beauty stakes we have helicopters (or 
rotorcraft in general) which are so ugly and "wrong", they defy 
the observation.  One can only conclude that designs at the 
extremes of the spectrum are Good -- maybe because there is no 
compromising in their design.  The dross lives in the middle ;-)

> >but maybe if we keep this thread going long enough...
> 
>         - extending the length of this thread in tempora, i can
>         cope with; in quality (or width), however...

Well, we were up to 570 chars or so before this reply so it's 
getting closer -- quality or not.  And with some judiciously 
enhanced message-IDs (see this one) we could get there quicker.

,,
> >>>but hey! it's going to work first time ;-)
..
> >Still unproven, but I stand by my earlier optimism :-)
> 
>         - good, good; it's nice to see a little unwarranted blind
>         faith and optimism in the face of all experience, the gods,
>         and the fates..
> 
>                              - and the kindly ones...   *g*

What else is there?  ;-)

Thanks for keeping the thread going,
Pete

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