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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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Subject: Re: Some things that pointer-less languages can't do efficiently
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Date: 13 Oct 90 23:51:39 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.154528.25240@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> Dan, if you want to hold a flame-war, do it in alt.flame or
> alt.religion.computers, not comp.lang.misc.

Fair enough.

> Quotable exerpts, out of context.

As is usual for you.

> >I'm not trying to fool you; I told you repeatedly to look it up in the
> >TeX code.

Yes! Please quote this! Every programmer who actually pays attention to
the literature in the field he works in will be laughing his head off at
you. You don't even realize that the TeX code has been published as a
book, perhaps the greatest program exposition ever. That's funny.

---Dan
``Quotable excerpts, out of context.'' Greg Lindahl, applying his morals