Xah Lee's Unixism

[jmfbahciv at aol.com]

In article <10jepndi1en2id8 at corp.supernews.com>,
   SM Ryan <wyrmwif at tango-sierra-oscar-foxtrot-tango.fake.org> wrote:
># > Not exactly a typical editor function, agreed. I was feeling a little
># > whimsical at the time.
># 
># i once did a random email/usenet signature with zippy/yow ... but i
># added two other files to it ... and then i had to fix a feature in
># yow. yow uses a 16bit random number to index a yow file ... it was ok
># as long as your sayings file was less than 64kbytes. i had to modify
># yow to handle files larger than 64kbytes ... the "sayings" file used
># for 6670 separater pages was 167k bytes and the jargon file was 413k
># bytes ... while a current zippy yow file is 52,800 bytes.
>
>It's nice to know people still have time to work on 
>really important things.

Before you choke on your stuffiness, you should know that
playing uncovered an ungodly number of bugs that would
have never been exercised doing computing that had been
approved by PHBs.

/BAH


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