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/ __/ / /_/ / / / /_/ /_/ / / / / __/
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War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
-- Charles Edward Montague
Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning:
It's on the other side.
In West Union, Ohio, no married man can go flying without his spouse
along at any time, unless he has been married for more than 12 months.
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13: SLOBOL
SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler.
Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they
compile, SLOBOL compilers allow you to travel to Bolivia to pick the
coffee. Forty-three programmers are known to have died of boredom
sitting at their terminals while waiting for a SLOBOL program to
compile. Weary SLOBOL programmers often turn to a related (but
infinitely faster) language, COCAINE.
There are no data that cannot be plotted on a straight line if the axes
are chosen correctly.
Die, v.:
To stop sinning suddenly.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.
Never leave a macassar and an antimacassar in the same room together.
Tuesday, 19 May 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
