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From: cooleyra@clutx.clarkson.edu (pixel,c108,,)
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Subject: Re: loaded bases
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Date: 4 May 90 23:46:17 GMT
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From article <24681@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski):
> 
> So here I am sitting in front of my totally high tech Lisp
> [...] 
> Only by a chance glance at last month's time sheet did I notice that
> that was almost twice as high as it should have been.  The source
> file for the time functions was in base 8.  260(8) = 176(10).
> 
> The damn thing costs 40k and it doesn't know how to add.

Hah.  Get a new language.  One that knows a better language than Lisp.
Say, LOGO, maybe.

> If our hearts are pure, we can eradicate octal in our time!!
> 
> 		-- Jamie
Peeve #218:  Stupid flames of peeves that are just flame-bait in and of
	     themselves.
Peeve #219:  Recursive peeves (cf peeve # 219)
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