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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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