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From: rhys@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Rhys Weatherley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: REAL PROGRAMMERS
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Date: 30 Sep 90 02:05:07 GMT
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zmls04@trc.amoco.com (Martin L. Smith) writes:

>                                        Clearly anyone who could pass the
>traditional guru exam of writing a device driver by typing directly into
>cc is a real programmer (actually I think the use of a binary <<editor>>
>weakens Prof. Salmi's example).  I, as an example, am constructing this
>message by rubbing the TXD line on my modem against a battery.

cc!!  How non-guru-ish using a high-level language!  Real gurus (and real
programmers) use "cat >device-program-name" :-).

Rhys.

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