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| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
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948.0. "Truth can be more indelectable than puns..." by JIT081::DIAMOND (bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad.) Tue Feb 25 1992 21:43
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JIT081::DIAMOND "bad wiring. That was probably it. Very" 35 �� 26-FEB-1992 00:33
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From the Usenet newsgroup rec.humor.
From: [email protected] (Thomas B. Kinsman)
Subject: Battle of the C Compilers
Yes, this *really* happened, and it really happened to me.
As a Software Engineer for Eastman Kodak Company I have been
considering purchasing a C compiler for my home computer. I read
BYTE, and I see the adds, but I wasn't really ready to buy.
A couple of days ago I was walking in the local Mall, and noticed a
store which sells software. Mostly, they had games there, but there
were some word processing and tax preparation packages. I figured I
would ask about the cost of C compilers, just to find out what the
"non-mail order" price was.
The clerk looked like he was a senior in High School.
Me: "Pardon me, but do you have any C compilers?"
Clerk: "No, but we have `Sea Commander', and
`Sea Destroyer'."
As I walked away in disgust, I wondered how a person with an education
like that could work in such a position. (That is: how did he get the
job, and how did he manage to hold it?) However, the story clearly
demonstrates just how subjective hearing is. After all, to me "Sea
Destroyer" sounded like a REALLY nasty computer virus.
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P.S. BTW, they DO sell C compilers!! The clerk just wasn't very Csoned.
(uggh!)
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| 948.1 | ahem | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Wed Feb 26 1992 23:43 | 12 |
| G'day
Sounds to me that a C Destroyer was needed some years ago...
we would have avoided U**x since it it written in C...
;-)))
derek
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| 948.2 | | SHALOT::ANDERSON | Egregious Fopdoodle Manque | Thu Feb 27 1992 12:31 | 4 |
| I think every developer should have a C Commander. Sounds
neat!
-- C
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| 948.3 | Re .0 title...? | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Buddy, can youse paradigm? | Thu Feb 27 1992 19:15 | 7 |
| Whatzis indelectable? ...
... ineluctable? ...
... unelectable? ...
... indelicate? ...
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| 948.4 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Thu Feb 27 1992 19:49 | 3 |
| >Whatzis indelectable? ...
Somewhat less than lexical exactitude, along with an innuendo of joy.
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| 948.5 | Forgot the :-) on .3 ... | RDVAX::KALIKOW | Buddy, can youse paradigm? | Fri Feb 28 1992 03:58 | 1 |
| As dey say, innuendo... and out the other... :-)
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| 948.6 | indubitably! | MCIS5::WOOLNER | Photographer is fuzzy, underdeveloped and dense | Fri Feb 28 1992 09:59 | 1 |
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