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From: mckee@MITRE.ARPA (H. Craig McKee)
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Subject: Re: misquoting . . . .
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Date: 3 Nov 88 13:52:31 GMT
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>In short, Stev, you are right!  Just say it the best way you know how
>and take the "losses in translation".  That's the beauty of humans.
>They can compensate for a lot of bogosity.  If, howsomever, they take
>a tight, efficient, accurate algorithm from someone like Van Jacobson and
>contort it in any way, it cannot be compiled by a computer, for sure.

In the tradition of getting the facts wrong but the story right:

The closing reference to Van Jacobson and a compiler reminds me of an
old story about someone who worked for Sperry.  For amusement, he would
submit the inter-office memos to a COBOL complier; about 1/4 of the 
memos would compile.  Regards - Craig