On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:51:14 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >For the record let me say I was not dinging the OP for being a nitpicker. No >such implication was intended. It just seemed that the question itself was >unanswerable. > >I have a friend who used to be the systems programming manager for a large >retailer. When his people would come to him with questions like "why does the >Binder wrap certain lines at 84 columns?" he would say > >Let's split that question into two parts to make it simpler. Why? That's a >question that philosophers have struggled with for years and have never come >up with an answer. And does the Binder wrap certain lines at 84 columns? The >answer to that question is Yes. > I think he was imitating Prof. Irwin Corey, the "World's Foremost Authority". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHlLmYVCzKY
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