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Comments: In-reply-to Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
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Richard Salz writes:
>
> A couple of updates.
>
> At a Usenix (Portland?) dmr had a keynote and he interviewed himself.Q:
> "What do you think of X?" A: "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum it still
> sucks."  Maybe Rob said it earlier, but that was the first time I heard it
> publically.

Just in case someone has been living under a rock and hasn't heard this one...

We're lucky that Don Knuth had nothing to do with X?

Why?

He would have called it ecccchhhhh.