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From: Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: More humor
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 09:23:24 GMT
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these came into sci.math. symbolic on the "shoot yourself in the foot"
column.  
Subject: Re: an amusing article
From: John G Hardie, jgh1+@pitt.edu
Date: 26 May 93 17:14:42 GMT
In article <12390@blue.cis.pitt.edu> John G Hardie, jgh1+@pitt.edu writes:
>I'd heard the APL entry differently....
>
>APL: you hear a loud noise and a hole appears suddenly in your
>     foot, but you are unable to figure out what happened.
>

Subject: Re: an amusing article
From: Paul Rubin, phr@telebit.com
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 21:54:46 GMT
In article <C7nM7A.FCz@telebit.com> Paul Rubin, phr@telebit.com writes:
>jgh1+@pitt.edu (John G Hardie) writes:
>>
>
>The way I heard it:
>
>APL: you hear a gunshot, and there is a hole in your foot, but
>you do not remember enough linear algebra to understand what the
>hell happened.

richard j. gaylord, university of illinois, gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

"if you're not programming functionally, then you must be programming
dysfunctionally"
