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?
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