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  3. From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
  4. Subject: Re: Shakespeare's Law of Prototyping
  5. Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
  6. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:21:02 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1993Jan28.182102.11637@scorch.apana.org.au>
  8. References: <1jvachINN96m@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1k1ub5INN6n5@aludra.usc.edu>
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  11. sgoldste@aludra.usc.edu (Fogbound Child) writes:
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  13. |Then, of course, there's Shakespeare's famous C-programmer. A fellow by
  14. |the name of Macbeth.
  15. |     "...we but teach Bloody Instructions, which, being taught,
  16. |         return to plague th' inventor." (I, viii)
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  18. Shakespeare must have been talking about C when Falstaff says:
  19.   "O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a
  20. saint." - Henry IV Part 1, Act 1 Scene 2.
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  23. Jim Garner B.Math (Newcastle NSW Australia) - jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au
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