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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@dukat.mark.nfr.com> writes:

    Mark> Many people seem to have an opinion on the meaning of "su".
    Mark> Going to the source:

    Mark> "UNIX TIME-SHARING SYSTEM: UNIX PROGRAMMERS MANUAL Seventh
    Mark> Edition, Volume 1 January, 1979"
[snip]
    Mark> This, by the way, is called a "reference".  It is how you
    Mark> tell someone where the information comes from.  The nice
    Mark> thing about a reference is that anybody can check it.  If
    Mark> you can find a copy of the same book, you can see that what
    Mark> I quoted above is accurate and not just "gee, I seem to
    Mark> remember that..." or even "I heard from somebody who heard
    Mark> from somebody who talked to Dennis Ritchie that..."

Point taken, however non-referential discourse is at the very core of
being human. If everyone just immediately spouted chapter and vers on
every topic, we wouldn't have much of a discussion, would we? Were I
coding a program that was to participate in the Turing Test, for
example, I'd certainly have it respond to many questions with, "I seem
to recall that..."

(No, wait, I seem to recall that Turing, in his original paper, called
the test 'The Imitation Game'. I have the reference here somewhere...)

Regards,

Perry
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