home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!gdt!exspes
- From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: base -2 arithmetic (was: Re: Trinary)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.184432.2346@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:44:32 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.205443.19527@cubic.com>
- Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
- Organization: University of Bristol c/o University of Bath
- Lines: 25
-
- In the referenced article, hees@cubic.com (Phil Hees) writes:
- >pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >>In article <3ug2TB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel
- >>Drucker) writes:
- >>: Daniel Max P. Drucker | #define SLOGAN Hey! Lets port it to COBOL!
- >>: The 14 year old LISP/C++ genius. | Disclaimer: I don't know COBOL.
- >>:
- >>Aha. BIFF GR0WS UP!!!!!
- >>Or is it more a case Mr Drucker being an admirer of D000G1E H0WSSSER!!!!
- >
- >More like Ensign Wesley Crusher. :)
- >
- >Daniel, you might want to tone your .sig down a bit. There are quite
- >a few _real_ geniuses reading this newsgroup, and they don't go around
- >flaunting it quite so openly. Someone might ask you for proof.
- >
- >Besides, _Real_ geniuses know COBOL (even if they refuse to use it).
-
- Close. I'd claim that REAL (TM) geniuses *knew* COBOL, realised why
- they wished they didn't, and promptly forgot it, retaining only the
- memory that they weren't supposed to learn it again.
-
- --
- Paul Smee, Computing Service, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UD, UK
- P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk - ..!uunet!ukc!bsmail!p.smee - Tel +44 272 303132
-