So, Dave was talking about outlines
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols : The Woes of Web Services
Joe Johnston : "It's not the language designer's perview to make you code clearly.
Any claim a language makes to being inherently cleaner to code in (I'm looking at you, Java and python) is naive. I don't expect a java programmer to maintain a Perl program, just as I don't expect a Perl programmer to maintain a java program. In fact, that's why I'm not an editor for a Japanese magazine -- I have no facility for the language. Does that mean Japanese is inferior to English?"
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : joust
Playful fighting or sparring.
ex. They are not really angry. They are just jousting with each other.
see also : joust dict-ified
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : contravene
Contravene \Con`tra*vene"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contravened};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Contravening}.] [LL. contravenire; L. contra
+ venire to come: cf. F. contrevenir. See {Come}.]
1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict
with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation
of; to defeat.
So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be
contravened. --Southey.
2. To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to
contravene a law.
Laws that place the subjects in such a state
contravene the first principles of the compact of
authority. --Johnson.
Syn: To contradict; set aside; nullify; defeat; cross;
obstruct; baffle; thwart.
web1913
contravene
v 1: go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the
law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules" [syn: {conflict},
{run afoul}, {infringe}]
2: deny the truth of [syn: {contradict}, {negate}]
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