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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
To: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Whence did "XXX" come about?
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 23:02:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFNqd5WU9+7JGD08TRRdVCSq-_BQSH83pkmKLKu=Bh3ifHm1Vg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2009031811570.10377@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>

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On Thu., Sep. 3, 2020, 6:14 p.m. Steve Nickolas, <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:

>
> I use "XXX" too - usually in the form "XXX FIXME".


Timing is everything, especially in humour...

I nearly choked on something when I realized this thread was going on as I
read notes on the PostgreSQL list where the somewhat famous (?) Tom Lane
observed that he was planning to comment a commit to password management
code with "XXX FIXME"

:-) :-) :-)

So this is clearly an idiom still in active use!!!

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-04  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-03 17:32 Dave Horsfall
2020-09-03 18:11 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-03 20:35   ` Warner Losh
2020-09-03 20:54     ` Dan Halbert
2020-09-03 22:13       ` Steve Nickolas
2020-09-04  3:02         ` Christopher Browne [this message]
2020-09-03 20:28 ` Warren Toomey

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