matra

If you spend time in direct response circles, the matra is A.

My matra is usually 'get the basic idea down, then worry about it later' in rewriting of course.

At state level it's often much more democratic but federally, the US is not a (direct) democracy and shouldn't be called so by the media in matra-like manner.

Spotted one typo, the reference to Hanchette in the section on Matra Datavision should be Hachette.

That section could also mention that the Matra software is now opensource.

People that keep repeating that matra really don't do serious Windows development.

No, this is not correct despite it being a modern day matra.

The sofware was developped by Matra transport international (now Siemens Mobility).

Reminds me of that old matra: For deflation, hold cash.

On a more bizarre level, use the same logic as coffeescript (java - coffee), and get something like 'C-matra' (Sumatra being another Indonesian isle, like Java).

> (thus funding their war of aggression) I see this repeated as a matra, in a way of Carthago delenda est.

I met my first wife online, more than 20 years ago, well before the web, over a Minitel-based chat system accessed via an Apple II (mine) and a Matra dedicated terminal (hers).

If they really believed in the "say no to email" matra, they would have simply said no to email themselves.

Is the "one way to do something" matra still a guiding principle for Python?

The "fail fast, fail early fail often" matra does not work so well for me, especially when I have complete control over the final outcome.

This is how we actually use statistical analysis, as part of a dialog between reality and propositions, rather than repeating the empty matra "correlation is not causation", which while true is something I too often see deployed to denigrate interesting and potentially fertile observations.

Matra: End users don't care about the OS.

Partial nationalisation (51%+): Dassault, Honeywell-Bull, Matra, Roussel-Uclaf, Sacilor, Usinor.