--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > I once was able to sneak a couple of funny things into > > > the glossary of a software manual I was writing. One > > > definition read: > > > > > > * infinite loop. See loop, infinite. > > > > > > When you went there, that definition read: > > > > > > * loop, infinite. See infinite loop. > > > > > > Also: > > > > > > * recursion. See recursion. > > > > > > When the company found out what I'd put in their manual, > > > I explained to them that my definitions, though silly, > > > explained the terms far better than a real one would > > > have. They agreed, and let them stand in future revs > > > of the manual. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/y2wnrb > > http://tinyurl.com/yktj4n > > Hell has frozen over! > > Judy actually going out of her way to document through these links > how Barry's creative terms have been picked up by others and is now > appearing on the web as standard terms to describe the actual > phenomenon that Barry first put the term to.
Right, hundreds and hundreds of pages, and not one gives Barry credit! Isn't that terrible? I mean, "Infinite loop. See loop, infinite" is mentioned in a Wikipedia entry for "The Computer Contradictionary," but they reversed it from Barry's original (see above) so they wouldn't have to credit him, the scumbuckets. There are even people making money selling T-shirts with those phrases on them, can you imagine? Barry really ought to sue. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
