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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The *ART* of Computer Programming
Message-ID: <25f2fdf4.1519@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 90 00:01:56 GMT
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Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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I didn't realize that the remark I had posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc had somehow
gotten cross-posted to comp.unix.wizards.  I don't consider myself a wizard,
I don't normally read this group, and my first hint was a flaming email
message asking whether reading the specs was part of the job, implying
that I hadn't read the referral of follow-ups to email.

Anyway, after reading the thread of discussion, I feel a little better, 
since a lot of you seem to have agreed with my remarks.

One last quote:

I have a professor who tells us, "If you do not show TLC towards your own
code, do not expect any from me, either!"

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.