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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: time(0L) - history of a misconception
Message-ID: <16268@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 25 May 91 03:05:32 GMT
References: <1991May22.130713.25852@sco.COM> <1991May24.151350.22705@holos0.uucp> <1991May25.002706.27552@kithrup.COM>
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In article <1991May25.002706.27552@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>Talk to Henry, Doug, or Chris about such things; I'll just get
>into an argument and end up calling you a fool or worse.  (HGoC might
>*think* so, but I don't think they'll *say* so.  Well, actually, I'm not so
>sure about that, now that I think about it.)

"Sean, you ignorant slut."

I think it's entirely a function of how annoyed we are by hearing the
umpteen-zillionth repetition of the same error, when sources of correct
information are relatively easy to come by.

:-)