As far as I remember, Kernighan and Ritchie did an excellent
job of explaining the intracacies of C to me.  However, don't
get me started on Mr. Bjarne Stroustrup...

Cheers,
-Neil.




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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Russell McMahon
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [OT]: XXCOPY is a sometimes thing. Was: XXCOPY...


>    Peter, my English is weak, I'm sorry .
> I'm happy for you saved your invaluable time using
> abbreviations. But what does it mean "tclsh" ? It drives me
> absolutely upset, when I can't solve the sort of puzzles, you
> proposed regularly.
>    Thank You in advance.   Mike.

Blame Kerningham & Ritchie :-)
It's all to do with C & Unix and one of the primary objectives is to make
the language, the Operating System and everything associated with it as
terse & obfuscated (compact & confusing) as possible. Or so I'm told :-)

            RM

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