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- From: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek)
- Subject: Re: More people would use gopher if ...
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:40:06 GMT
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- >> Just think if someone named a COMPUTER gopher. GOD what a marketing
- >> disaster that would be.
-
- >Heh. Until this year, MIT students in Course 6 (that's Electrical
- >Enginerring and Computer Science, for those of you who don't use
- >numbers for EVERYTHING :-) started out programming in Scheme on a
- >machine made by HP, called a `Chipmunk'. This last year, they were
- >replaced with HP 9000 `Snakes'.
-
- I was refferring to a machine developed - and marketed - on a large
- scale. So don't tell me HP a model Chipmunk or Snakes - those were names
- given by your school.
-
- Naming a single program or machine something cute is just fine.
-
- PS: Scheme?!?!?! ughgh!!! U of I started making us program in that this
- year - I suppose it has been spreading everywhere - in fact we're
- using MIT scheme and a book published at MIT... OH THANKS GUYS!!! ;)
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