On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, David Boyes wrote:

> > The charging for taking a breath was a joke in a Carl Barks Donald Duck
> story "The Golden Helmet" (Four Color Comics
> >#408) in 1952. However, would only be charged to people in North America.
> He who possessed The Golden Helmet was
> >the owner of the continent or something along that line.
>
> Spear and magic helmet? 8-)
>
> Ob Linux reference: Isn't it surprising the amount of diversity represented
> by the Linux community? I mean if you think about it, this crowd is into
> some *weird* stuff.  Think of the trillions of brain cells being used to
> store bits of 1940's cartoon dialogue. What could we do if we used all that
> space for programming? Somebody might figure out how to make a
> high-performance PL/1 interpreter...8-)
>

I don't care much about an interpreter, but a compiler would be handy.




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