The J wiki version was from a scanned and OCR-ed version which - had numerous errors - had no paragraph breaks - was missing all the parts of the text done in APL characters
----- Original Message ----- From: Fred Bone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:54 am Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Feb 2007 issue of Dr Dobbs > On 8 Mar 2007 at 21:08, Roger Hui said: > > > The text of "Life: Nasty, Brutish, and Short" can be > > found at http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Doc/Life > > I rather like the penultimate clause of the footnote [Ho51] > explaining > the source of the title: "...and, which is worst of all, continual > ear > and danger of violent death; ...". Did the original paper have > this > misprint, or is this a mis-transcription? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
