2003-06-24 11:52:58

by Rick A. Hohensee

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Subject: Alan Cox has been...

John BRadford
>> Alan Cox has been replaced by a sh script. GNU too. I must admit though,
>> it's a whopping 115k.
>
>I can't find it on ftp.gnu.org, so I am assuming that that was a
>joke.
>

I think you think I mean the shell script is GNU too. I mean the shell
script replaces GNU too, which is why it could be a while before you see
it on gnu.org.

That sourcecode I posted is for my assembler in Bash, osimplay. Some
people think it's funny. Personally, I think 64k of asm("") in Linux is
funny.

"Let's face it. C sucks." Alan Cox, puctuation added by me, obviously.

Unlike Alan, I did something about it. And like C, I have no use any
longer for Alan.

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/install/clienux/interim/osimplay.tgz


Rick Hohensee


2003-06-24 14:51:37

by Martin J. Bligh

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> Unlike Alan, I did something about it. And like C, I have no use any
> longer for Alan.

And yet, somehow ... you think we have a use for you?

Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the knowledge
who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.

M.

2003-06-24 15:37:26

by Paul Rolland

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Hello,

> Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the
> knowledge who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.

I was the remaining 0.000000001%, and I just changed my mind ;-)
You can say 100% now....

Regards,
Paul

Subject: Re: Alan Cox has been...

In message <014c01c33a68$07ed2e20$5700a8c0@witbe>,"Paul Rolland" writes:
>I was the remaining 0.000000001%, and I just changed my mind ;-)
>You can say 100% now....

with about 5e9 people in the world, there must be 4 others somewhere.

2003-06-24 16:27:11

by Steven Cole

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On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:05, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Unlike Alan, I did something about it. And like C, I have no use any
> > longer for Alan.
>
> And yet, somehow ... you think we have a use for you?
>

I thought there was already a hardware implementation of this:

http://www.alancoxonachip.com/

Although rumor has it that the "Four levels of power management" patch
was only recently merged.

Steven

2003-06-24 18:13:25

by Werner Almesberger

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Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the knowledge
> who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.

Hmm, I'm not sure Alan has the necessary skills to design an
assembler that looks like the glue-sniffing bastard son from
a drunken encounter of Intercal and APL ;-)

- Werner

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2003-06-24 18:17:02

by Martin J. Bligh

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--On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 15:21:54 -0300 Werner Almesberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the knowledge
>> who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure Alan has the necessary skills to design an
> assembler that looks like the glue-sniffing bastard son from
> a drunken encounter of Intercal and APL ;-)

Please note the use of the word "useful" at the end of my sentence.
It was not accidental ;-)

M.

2003-06-24 18:24:07

by Valdis Klētnieks

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:02:31 EDT, chas williams said:

> with about 5e9 people in the world, there must be 4 others somewhere.

(originally said about Usenet):

"There is no theory so bizarre and implausible that somebody, somewhere,
won't subscribe to it. The proof is left as an exercise for your killfile"
-- Author Unknown


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