From: "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Ripple effect
Date: 7 Sep 2006 12:09:39 -0700
Date: 2006-09-07T12:09:39-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157656178.890411.309010@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccirk3zqm6.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
Robert A Duff wrote:
> I believe Tucker coined the term "Ripple Effect", and that one is
> supposed to imagine the addition of a with_clause rippling through the
> transitive closure of semantic dependences. Also, it's a joke because
> Ripple is a wine -- that's the main similarity to Beaujolais Effect.
> I've never tasted Ripple, but I think it's considered to be of somewhat
> lower quality than Beaujolais. ;-)
I think it's considered to be of somewhat lower quality than drinking
transmission fluid, but I've never personally tasted it so I don't
know.
-- Adam
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 22:29 Ripple effect Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-08-24 9:21 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-08-24 23:39 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-08-25 7:03 ` Maciej Sobczak
2006-08-24 18:22 ` Adam Beneschan
2006-08-24 23:40 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-04 13:52 ` Robert A Duff
2006-09-04 15:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-04 18:06 ` Robert A Duff
2006-09-05 2:33 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-05 7:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-09-05 16:28 ` Robert A Duff
2006-09-05 16:23 ` Robert A Duff
2006-09-05 21:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-07 18:18 ` Robert A Duff
2006-09-08 22:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-09-06 0:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-09-07 18:30 ` Robert A Duff
2006-09-07 21:21 ` Simon Wright
2006-09-08 2:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-09-09 14:55 ` adaworks
2006-09-05 23:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-09-07 19:09 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2006-09-07 19:21 ` Ed Falis
2006-09-07 19:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-09-08 13:06 ` Ed Falis
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