From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:04:47 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1507170701060.92212@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec16a26dcf14cac3dd24f7ec6da6e1a5.squirrel@www.ccil.org>
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, John Cowan wrote:
> The punning pseudonym, the complaint at the end that Unix and C are dead
> and nothing is even on the horizon to replace them, and the general
> snarky tone suggest to me that it's Rob "Mark V. Shaney" Pike. In that
> case, the affiliation with Bellcore is a blind ("not Goodyear,
> Goodrich").
Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke? If it's American
humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...
(Yes, I'm familiar with Mark V. Shaney, and have even used it.)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer"
"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of
roughly a factor of two per year." -- G.Moore, Electronics, Vol 38 No 8, 1965
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-16 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 15:48 Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 20:17 ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 20:27 ` Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 21:04 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2015-07-16 21:15 ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 23:31 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-07-17 5:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-07-16 22:21 Norman Wilson
2015-07-16 22:29 ` John Cowan
2015-07-21 1:18 Doug McIlroy
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