From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 23:48:29 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: <20071005033318.GC5680@bitmover.com> References: <20071005033318.GC5680@bitmover.com> Message-ID: <20071005034829.GH27520@mercury.ccil.org> Larry McVoy scripsit: > No offense intended, but why waste time on 386 (or even way more time on > 286)? Why waste time watching football on television? (This is a stock answer to the question "Why waste time on artificial languages?") -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script. One of the geologists came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too. Try hanging up and phoning in again.' --Beverly Erlebacher