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- From: klm@gozer.mv.com (Kevin L. McBride)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
- Subject: Re: cancel <1993Jan1.211318.29263@krk.fi>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.032334.2240@gozer.mv.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 03:23:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.211532.29328@krk.fi> <C07Jo5.2oD@geovision.gvc.com>
- Organization: GhostBuster Central - Southern NH Usenet Access, Nashua, NH
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- pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:
-
- > EVERYTHING? But I've already read the bible - I've got it on my desk right
- > now - White cover, Blue letters, Title: "The C Programming Language",
- > Authors: Kernighan and Ritchie.
-
- That's the Old Testament. The New Testament has a drawing of a camel
- on the cover and was co-authored by some guy named Wall who seems to
- have written most of the really useful software on the net including
- the interpreter for the language that the book describes.
-
- --
- Kevin "It's the quintessential 'shell script from hell.'
- People sometimes gather their friends around and
- run it just for the entertainment value."
- - Larry Wall on "Configure"
-