Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:52:58 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001108115049.0498bf00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200011081749.KAA20426@usr08.primenet.com> References: <20001108183028.F65938@lpt.ens.fr>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 10:49 AM 11/8/2000, Terry Lambert wrote: >Of course, computer programmers as a class tend, more than >other professions, to have English literacy, and have a >(some would say perverse) tendency toward puns and other word >and language games, which closely correlate to their skills >as programmers. Some do. Others seem completely humorless, perhaps because they are obsessed with precision and can't abide the ambiguity demanded by a pun. Some who fall into this category are absolutely brilliant but impossibly hard to work with. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.3.2.7.2.20001108115049.0498bf00>