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Date:      Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:04:12 -0500
From:      Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>
To:        underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen), Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gratuitious controversy isn't a good thing!!!
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.0.20040102135914.0205fb80@pop.face2interface.com>
In-Reply-To: <iysmiy6vnb.miy@mail.comcast.net>
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At 01:41 PM 1/2/2004, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>It's as much about the perquisites of developers as about PC-ness.
>The peculiar tastes of some developers is tolerated as thanks for their 
>work or at least to help keep them happy.

Brings to mind a mainframe system I once helped install, written by vendors 
in California. A particular piece of code I worked with contained such lines as

Mesa: if sunset go to lasso;

Pretty nutty stuff that somebody apparently got a kick out of writing. Wish 
they'd written all that shite up as pseudocode and put it in a comment 
block instead though.


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