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Date:      Wed, 08 Nov 2000 11:52:58 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20001108115049.0498bf00@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200011081749.KAA20426@usr08.primenet.com>
References:  <20001108183028.F65938@lpt.ens.fr>

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At 10:49 AM 11/8/2000, Terry Lambert wrote:

>Of course, computer programmers as a class tend, more than
>other professions, to have English literacy, and have a
>(some would say perverse) tendency toward puns and other word
>and language games, which closely correlate to their skills
>as programmers.

Some do. Others seem completely humorless, perhaps because they
are obsessed with precision and can't abide the ambiguity
demanded by a pun. Some who fall into this category are
absolutely brilliant but impossibly hard to work with.

--Brett



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