Re: Lua and numbers

[Enrique Garcia Cota <kikito@...>]

> but which would you employ as governess to your children?

Depends on the children.

I would employ Lua to govern common human children.

I would employ Haskell to govern the universal platonic ideal form of a child.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

2012/11/14 Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com>:

>
> But Lua and Haskell are very different. I see one as a duchess -
> an imposing, well-educated lady but somewhat unapproachable. The
> other is a pretty and cheerful barmaid, with no social pretension but
> more intelligence than most of her clients perceive. Which is which
> you can decide for yourselves - but which would you employ as governess
> to your children?
>

Lua.  (She may be either Lua Pereira, the barmaid at the Trocadero,
or Lady Lua Ffolkes-Cholmondeley, whose family lost their fortune
when the fourth Baron wagered the estate at the baccarat table —
I don't care which, as long as I'm sure it's not that brazen floozy Flora
Haskell who tried to chat up Andy Capp of all people, or that
stuck-up bluestocking Dr Germaine Haskell, who threatened to
kick my b***s off because I opened a door for her.)