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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: String lengths
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Date: 9 Feb 89 00:03:47 GMT
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In article <88853@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
]In article <88850@sun.uucp> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes:
]>In article <enj91#24gKdg=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
]>$Next time dmr posts something, I suggest you shut up and listen. Respectfully.
]
]>Is everyone else laughing as hard as I am?
]Since the
]PI is very much alive, and has spoken, contradicting him is a bit out
]of _my_ definition of scientific inquiry.

BUT -- DMR later replied and said that the person contradicting him
was RIGHT!

Even the great god :-) Ritchie is permitted to have a memory lapse.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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