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From: sts@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stanley T Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.micro
Subject: Re: Real Programmers...
Message-ID: <403@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 14:02:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 11 14:02:55 1983
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Real Lisp Hackers never use manuals, they consult the system source code,
preparatory to modifying it....

						stan the leprechaun hacker
						ssc-vax!sts (soon utah-cs)

(ps actually this is serious - most lisp packages have only the most
rudimentary manuals, and some have all the documentation at the end
of the source file.  One version of a loop macro package had some
documentation (at the end of the source file) that started out

	Loop macro blathering.
	This doc is totally wrong.  Comments, etc to....

and then later one of the options had the explanation

	This is strange, I'm not sure what it really does.

)