At 9:30 PM -0500 1/28/02, IPmonger wrote:
>jepler@unpythonic.dhs.org writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:06:24PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> Uh, I never said IBM ;-) I said "a three-letter-acronym"
>>> company. There were several. The one I dealt with was in
>>> Massachusetts, had a real penchant for three-letter acronyms and
>>> used a programming dialect which was the only single word oxymoron
>>> in the English language (enough hints yet?).
>
> I'm guessing DEC, but I must admit that the oxymoronic (scripting?)
> language escapes me...
>
Bliss, surely?
Which actually wasn't too bad once you got used to putting the
goddamed dots in front of all your variable (contents) accesses.
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