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From: David Fox <dsf@foxthompson.net>
To: "Jonathan Coupe" <jonathan@meanwhile.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Hitchhiker's Guide to Typing
Date: 11 Jun 2001 14:19:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <luk82ipvei.fsf@dsf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan Coupe"'s message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:22:12 +0100"

"Jonathan Coupe" <jonathan@meanwhile.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> > > I'd
> > > like some feedback on the notion that "if you can't explain it to a
> > > five-year-old, you don't really understand it"
> 
> My feedback: whoever first said this was probably a professional politician
> or a journalist.

In any case, certainly not a parent.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-13  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-08 20:22 Hao-yang Wang
2001-06-08 23:32 ` leary
2001-06-09  0:41   ` [Caml-list] " Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-06-11 16:43   ` [Caml-list] " Brian Rogoff
2001-06-11 18:22     ` Jonathan Coupe
2001-06-11 21:05       ` [Caml-list] " Joseph R. Kiniry
2001-06-11 21:19       ` David Fox [this message]

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