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- From: dmiller@im.lcs.mit.edu (Dick and Jill Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
- Subject: Forth books
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 16:25:10 -0600
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- Again, Jack Woehr prefers to take a dig and miss the point. He says:
- > In <9212191829.AA15097@im4> dmiller@im.lcs.mit.edu (Dick and Jill Miller)
- > writes:
- >
- > >Jaxfanz and others have noted it. I would urge you to notify your lawyers
- > >that their newly-proposed title for your book is uncomfortably close to the
- > >preexisting title, "FORTH: A TEXT AND REFERENCE". That is, unless you and
- > >its authors/publisher have some agreement on why your book is a follow-on
- > >to theirs, or unless you hope to cash in by construing an imagined linkage
- > >of that sort.
- >
- > Back in the 1940's, Warner Bros., makers of "Casablanca", threatened
- > to sue the Marx Bros. for making a film called "A Night in Casablanca".
- >
- > Groucho Marx fired back a letter threatening to sue Warner Bros.
- > for calling themselves "brothers", since the Marx Bros. were brothers first.
-
- Jack, you chose to cut out my further words from that message:
- Whether or not your Forth book is in the same class as this excellent one,
- I don't expect that it will be in the same series. If this is correct,
- please honor prior Forth authors by considering some different and more
- original style than the "FORTH:" opening word for your book's title.
-
- THAT's the point, to honor the prior Forth authors. Not to take advantage,
- while claiming to be technically correct. Not to be cute. Not to be
- nasty. Try it, you'll like it!
-
- Merry Christmas, Jack.
- --Dick Miller
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