The Tao of Programming

Blair P. Houghton bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Mon Aug 7 15:10:26 AEST 1989


In article <1819 at munnari.oz.au> kre at cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>In article <469 at thirdi.UUCP>, peter at thirdi.UUCP (Peter Rowell) writes:
>> When he asked how many machines it was on, I told him that, since it
>> had been posted 18 hours before on the east coast, it probably wasn't
>> in Australia yet,
>
>News gets to Australia much faster than that.  We don't necessarily
>read it in any great hurry, but its here...  (your article arrived
>about 5 1/2 hours after you posted it).

Ah, but I assure you its essential meaning reached you even before
it was written.

				--Blair
				  "Hey, if I can't be a _C_ guru...
				   :-)"



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