The committee is forming a subcommittee to finalize committee membership, which will then create a standard with which you can put things on top of other things. The committee will be made up of thing-putters who each have their own implementation, and we'll leave a good portion of the details "implementation defined", and call it Common Thing.

We will then begin work on ANSI Common Thing, ISO Common Thing, Common Thing the Thing 1,2,3,...N & you will still need to read the Steel Bank Common Thing library to figure out the correct thing putter attributes...

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> That seems to be endemic. People putting things on top of other
> things. Which reminds me that people aren't wearing enough hats!

There's a committee for putting things on top of other things, isn't there?

>
> brucee
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Akshat Kumar
> <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote:
>> I just wanted to see it in a box with blue borders amidst other multi-colored
>> boxes with blue borders, atop the sea of grey.
>>
>> 2009/3/13 Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
>>> It just generates a gmap map or satellite image of the place you name,
>>> try http://maps.google.com to see a demo.
>>
>> ak
>>
>>
>
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And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" department:

Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: No.
 -- Ovid

   "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense."

   "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."

   "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures"
-- Heraclitus