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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




  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-07 19:09 UTC|newest]

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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