Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Egg on my face for breakfast, crow for lunch, humble pie for dinner Keywords: wince Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 89 00:22:53 GMT Organization: Network 23 AI Research Group Lines: 19 In , I wrote: >[A short but nasty flame directed at Robert Firth] It is I who have learned the lesson this time. I'd had a rough and frustrating day, and what I *thought* I saw was some random presuming to know better than dmr about his own thought processes during the invention of C. I blew my top. I have since been informed by email (in blistering detail) that Mr. Firth is not a random and seen by dmr's followup that he was correct. I retract my insulting statements about Mr. Firth and accept full responsibility for my error. Let the record at least show that I was as quick to apologize as I had been to flame. Mr. Firth was not among those who filled my mailbox. I shall try to take his restraint in the face of provocation as a model for my own future behavior. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) Email: eric@snark.uu.net CompuServe: [72037,2306] Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718