Re: Foo Bar
Re: Foo Bar
- Subject: Re: Foo Bar
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:44:48 -0400
[This message may have been posted more than once. I got some kind of
unintelligible response back from either Apple or some other stop along the
way. Some about 'propellerheads'? Apologies, if so.]
Doug McNutt wrote [4/26/05 1:11 AM]:
> FUBAR was a well known navy acronym referring to telegraphy garbled beyond all
> recognition. Programming in NELIAC for NRL's NAREC computer - all vacuum tubes
> - was a teletypewriter-tape joy compared to deciphering AppleScript.
Not only are you a mathematician, you are a diplomat as well.
In my military (Air Force) family growing up, the 'F' in FUBAR didn't mean
garbled!
As a kiddy-proof basis for a game of FUBAR MasterMind, PHP would say that
the Levenshtein distance from "The Word"...
to garbled = 7
to fudge = 3
to book = 3
to buck = 1
to funk = 1
// p h p open
# FUBAR Master Mind
# Try to score a zero :)
#
$TheWord = "YOURGUESSHERE";
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","garbled");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","fudge");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","book");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","buck");
echo levenshtein("$TheWord","funk");
// p h p close
Okay. Hey, Doug. Here's one for you, maybe to go into your collection with
'There are 10 kinds of people....'
If you thought this was funny:
A: "Hey, what's new?"
B: E over h.
then you may like this one (this occurred to me while reading April's SciAm
this afternoon):
When I did something well, my mother would always said "(10 ^ -18)boy!"
So, what do you think? That joke is going places, my friends! You wait.
--
Gary
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