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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Hubble's mirror
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:27:04 GMT
- References: <BxqDzI.B1q@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Nov15.170247.18454@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <BxsCMI.9ux@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Nov16.033555.26144@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Nov16.033555.26144@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
- >#To the best of my knowledge, the only statement in my posting which is
- >#not a solidly-established fact . . .
- >
- >I was referring to your statment implying that Dr. Jefferys was
- >contributing to the "technological myth of the century." Correcting
- >Dr. Jefferys on matters of the HST is like correcting Dennis Ritchie
- >on matters of C.
-
- Since I've been known to do the latter, I don't see why I shouldn't do
- the former. :-) Actually, I don't immediately remember having had
- occasion to correct Dennis on the net, but I have found bugs in both
- his code and his book.
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- MS-DOS is the OS/360 of the 1980s. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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