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From: "Matthew O. Persico" <persicom AT acedsl DOT com>
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:47:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: <NCBBIHCHBLCMLBLOBONKOEMJDOAA.g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: RE: Cygwin + Oracle (Pro*C)
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:26:46 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>At 22:34 2003-03-13, news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com wrote:
>>>On 13 Mar 2003, günter strubinsky <strubinsky AT acm DOT org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am lost right now…
>>>
>>>Maybe you can't see the way because all that html is in the way.
>>
>>
>>Right. And that silly ASCII business is overkill, too.
>>
>>I'm starting a new campaign to go back to Fieldata and Baudot. Who
>>needs all that fancy-pants punctuation? If you can't get your
>>meaning
>>across with letters, numbers, comma, period and quotes (and, of
>>course,
>>the all-important dollar $ign), you just don't know how to
>>communicate.
>>Oh, yeah, and parentheses, of course... Hell, Fieldata has six
>>unused
>>codes. What a waste! Better stick to Baudot.
>>
>>RRS
>
>Pfhht, "Fieldata", "Baudot"!  Kids today and thier MIL-STD's and
>their "letter
>sets" and their "figure sets", bah!  Why, in my day, we had to press
>crude
>wooden styli into wet clay tablets to exchange information!  Mehhhh.
>And when
>the clay dried and turned rock-hard before you were finished, you'd
>get slivers
>from the stylus embedded in your fingers.  And the slivers would get
>infected,
>and pus would ooze all over your clay tablet, and we'd exchange pus-
>stained
>clay-tablet information and that’s the way it was AND WE LIKED IT!
>We loved it.
>We couldn't get enough of it.  Yeah, we liked it just fine.
>

Ug. What silly. We paint on cave walls. Grunt.

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Matthew O. Persico



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