--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Maybe Barry could get some of his celebrity friends like the > > > > Rolling Stones, Robert Crumb and the owner of the Yum-Yum > > > > Whore House to hold a benefit concert to raise the funds > > > > needed to sue. > > > > > > Nothing to sue for, Shemp. We tech writers don't > > > own the rights to what we write. And since these > > > definitions were in an old dBase manual last > > > published in 1982 or so by a company (Ashton Tate) > > > that no longer exists, even if we did there's not > > > much of anyone to get the loot from. But thanks > > > anyway. > > > > The Computer Contradictionary, which contains > > the "Infinite loop. See Loop, infinite" entry, > > was published in 1981 (under the title "The > > Devil's DP Dictionary"). > > > > They may have gotten it from him.
Um, not a year or more before he thought of it and put it in his company's manual (if it was even him that did it). > /shrug. Many computer jokes are rather obvious to the > people who have the technical background. Some jokes > probably sprang up independently many times over the > years. Not impossible, but given Barry's penchant for story-telling, not likely in this case. 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/
