Re: a note on notations

[peter@robots.oxford.ac.uk]

> >>     What timescale will it be before es becomes an embeddable
> >>     language like tcl?
> 
> > `Estimate by threes,' Paul.
> 
> Standard programmer->mgmt conversion:  double and go to the next higher
> unit.  Programmer says "I can do that in an hour" means mgmt allocates
> two days.
> 	/r$
> 
Thanks for explaining John's reply for me, I've been in university too
long and have so far never dealt with `management' before :-).

Pete.

[ BTW I was trying to ask a sensible question especially now es is going to
freeze for a while.  I was just curious on how es was to develop. ]