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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 03:48:49 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, mjacob@feral.com
Subject: Re: Breakage in -current for the ALPHA
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>> 1. Mispelling of `dependent' is annoying.
>
>Eh?
>
>feral-gw.feral.com > grep dependent /usr/dict/words 
>dependent
>dependently
>dependents
>independent
>independently
>interdependent

That only shows correct spellings.  ispell(1) guesses that `dependant' is
a misspelling of `0: defendant ...  3: dependent ... 6: de pendant ...'.

>> 2. Nothing is really machine independent.
>
>So? That's spurious logic. We all die, therefore we shouldn't attempt to
>live?

We shouldn't spend much lifetime on this :-).

Bruce

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