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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: frustration, frustration..
Message-ID: <2032@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 88 03:12:41 GMT
References: <2166@crash.cts.com> <2660@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1320@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1320@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Why would you want to ?...
>
>Yeh.
>
>> C ends up being shorthand for machine language, just like god and
>> dennis ritchie intended it to be. :-)
>
>I though DMR *was* GOD.
Well, he was god for quite a while, but he lost it. To wit:

An former employee of the company where I work (no, it's not trailing
edge technology, thats a CIA front) returned over xmas to have lunch
with us. I had never met him, but he was an amigoid and I got to
talk to him.

"So, like I heard you worked at Bell labs"

"Yeah, I sure did. Never knew how good it was till I left"

"Hmm. Ever meet Dennis Ritchie"

"Well, almost. I found his office once, and was going to talk to him, 
but I peeked in and watched for a while. He was having a hell of a time
getting larn to compile and was saying some pretty nasty things about 
UNIX and C, so I left"

John Warnock is god.



-- 
    It's 90 miles too dark from my ignition, or something like that. 
                          richard@gryphon.CTS.COM
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