On 10/25/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb / gmail.com> wrote: > > Other people, however, believe that you enter a queue at > > the head and leave at the tail, in the manner of food passing through a > > snake. Queues written in that way appear in places that might be > > considered authoritiative, such as the GNU/Linux operating system, making > > the point of view hard to dismiss however repugnant you find the idea of > > getting your data from a snake's rear-end." > > > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFO> > > Repugnant is definitely the word. I don't like the idea of getting my > information from a snake's asshole. If I wanted to do that, I'd talk > to Steven Ballmer. Or, in a similar vein perhaps Disney. Repugnant or not?: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/24/disneys-coprophilic.html -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/