Re: CHAT: An introduction
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 21:40 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> Good luck! I'll refrain from quoting any of Mark Twain's damning
> commentary on the subject. :)
We can all read it for ourselves at
http://www.mastertexts.com/Twain_Mark/A_Tramp_Abroad/Chapter001003.htm
and many other excellent sites.
"In German, all the Nouns begin with a capital letter. Now that is a good
idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from
its lonesomeness."
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
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