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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous ?
Summary: I thought it was beautiful
Message-ID: <1324@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 14:15:13 GMT
References: <11362@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14100@lanl.gov>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <14100@lanl.gov>, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
|  From article <11362@smoke.BRL.MIL>, by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn):
|  > In article <20685@usc.edu> blarson@basil.usc.edu (bob larson) writes:
|  >>Perhaps an analogy would help.
|  > 
|  > Then again, perhaps not.
|  > I sure didn't think it helped clarify what we were talking about.
|  
|  We agree on something!  I didn't think tha analogy helped either.

  I think you should go back and reread the "analogy." I think that it
might be better called a parable, and if you look to see what it has to
do with C, you will see a lot of net.people there. I thought he was
pulling my chain, but I have been out of this topic. Pity it was too
subtle for those it was meant to parody.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon