Notes on  AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING 

[from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.]

Acknowledgement of a notable accomplishment. Something long-awaited,
widely desired, possibly unexpected but secretly wished-for, with a
suggestion that something about the problem (and perhaps the steps
necessary to make it go away) was deeply disturbing to hacker
sensibilities.

In person, the phrase is almost invariably pronounced with the same
portentious intonation as the movie. The customary in-person
(approving) response is a weak and halfhearted "Yaaaay...", with one
index finger raised like a flag and moved in a small circle. The
reason for this, like most of the Monty Python oeuvre, cannot easily
be explained outside its original context.

Example: "changelog entry #436 with the foo driver brain damage
taken care of, finally obsoleted BROKEN_EVIL_KLUDGE. Removed from
source tree. (And there was much rejoicing)."

J3N Research Labs

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