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From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Michael Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Semi-Annual Posting of my Jerry Pournelle Spoof
Message-ID: <154@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 88 21:39:16 GMT
References: <1521@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Michael Van Pelt)
Organization: Video7, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1521@helios.ee.lbl.gov> forrest@ux1.lbl.gov (Jon Forrest) writes:
>I can't stand Jerry Pournelle. I really can't. A while ago I wrote
>the following in an attempt to make myself feel better. I've decided
>to post it every 6 months until Jerry stops writing "columns".
>---
>		Computing at Anarchy Acres [deleted]

You ought to check out a copy of the April 1984 issue of Computer
Languages, if you can find one at a library or something.  (Maybe it
was '85 or '86, now that I think of it...)  It was a complete "April
Fools" issue, and had a fantastic parody of Pournelle's column.  (It's
too bad that all the magazines are too staid and "professional" to have
enough of a sense of humor to do this any more.)

It also had an "interview" with Nicholas Wirth:  "I wrote Pascal as a
joke to amuse the computer community, but nobody caught on.  It has no
input or output, and STILL nobody caught on!"
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