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Article #198Re: loaded bases
From: pixel,c108,,
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 23:46
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 23:46
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From article <24681@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, by jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski): > > So here I am sitting in front of my totally high tech Lisp > [...] > Only by a chance glance at last month's time sheet did I notice that > that was almost twice as high as it should have been. The source > file for the time functions was in base 8. 260(8) = 176(10). > > The damn thing costs 40k and it doesn't know how to add. Hah. Get a new language. One that knows a better language than Lisp. Say, LOGO, maybe. > If our hearts are pure, we can eradicate octal in our time!! > > -- Jamie Peeve #218: Stupid flames of peeves that are just flame-bait in and of themselves. Peeve #219: Recursive peeves (cf peeve # 219) ----- Pixel rick cooley, sablelover cooleyra@clutx. clarkson.edu | bitnet "Nothing can stop him. Not even common sense." --Mark Komarinski "Yeah..arrgh." --Steven Walsh. (corrected by his roommate)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: cooleyra@clutx.clarkson.edu (pixel,c108,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti.explorer,alt.peeves Subject: Re: loaded bases Message-ID: <1990May4.234617.15190@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Date: 4 May 90 23:46:17 GMT References: <24681@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: cooleyra@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY Lines: 24