Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] builtins/source: parse the -i option

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2024-05-20T03:42:04+0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> My memory is hopeless, and I'm sure someone on the list can supply the
> correct attribution, but one of the big name CS people once said
> something along the lines of "perfection isn't when there's nothing
> left to add, but when there's nothing left to remove".

That would be Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of _La Petit Prince_,
which you may have read as a child, or read to children at some point.

Wikipedia says he was a "writer, poet, and aviator".

A reminder, were one needed, that intellectual silos are costly!  :)

(I only had this factoid ready at hand because Peter Schaffter, author
of the mom macro package for groff, uses it in his .signature file.)

Regards,
Branden

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