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From: PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky)
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Subject: Re: Elements of Network Style
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Date: 9 Jan 91 02:20:09 GMT
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jqj--

You are, of course, entitled to dislike my prose style.  As They say,
"There's no accounting for lack of taste."  However, your appeal to
the late Professor Strunk is doubly a non sequitur.  In the first place,
I was playing on _The Elements of Programming Style_, and turn out to
be eminently entitled to do so, for reasons Brian might explain to you if
you ask him nicely.  In the more significant place, though:

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the
true writer always plays to an audience of one. [_The Elements of Style_,
p. 85--which is, as it happens, the last page, if memory serves]

But, then, perhaps that sentiment was engrafted by Mr. White....

natheless, cheers,
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