7no### [at] ezwvcom (Glen Berry) wrote:
> <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
>
>>I just had an idea for an improvement to the POV-Ray scene language:
>
> Incidently, for a "modest" proposal, this sounds pretty radical to me.

It's an allusion to Jonathan Swift's 1729 treatise, the full title of
which was "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People
from Being a Burden to their Parents or the Country".

Swift's proposal was also satire.


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Jeff Lee         shi### [at] gatenet         http://www.gate.net/~shipbrk/

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