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Re: FYI: A Truly pd yacc. (zoo or what is in a name)

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From: Jeffrey W Percival
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1989 15:27
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In article <3615@yunexus.UUCP> oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) writes:
>take it, and call it *whatever* you like.
>If you find bugs, we certainly will know what to patch.

But this is no good.  Say I call it zork.  A user on my system
starts posting to computers all over the world about zork bugs.
Others complain about zoo bugs, and the (real) zoo people start
fretting.

No, this program is doomed without a consensus on its name.

Or, stop being a chicken-shit and call it "ls".  Just kidding.
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)
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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
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Subject: Re: FYI: A Truly pd yacc. (zoo or what is in a name)
Keywords: yacc, pd
Message-ID: <721@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 89 15:27:29 GMT
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