From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,89cb2d7ffc7421c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Adam Beneschan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ripple effect Date: 7 Sep 2006 12:09:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1157656178.890411.309010@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1157656184 7804 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2006 19:09:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:09:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=cw1zeQwAAABOY2vF_g6V_9cdsyY_wV9w Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6500 Date: 2006-09-07T12:09:39-07:00 List-Id: 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