On 7/30/07, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Carlton Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [...snip...] > > Yes, the syntax for dd is a bit weird. This is because of Hysterical > Raisins, > AFAICT. > > [...snip...] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...]
> Hysterical Raisins, from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility": << 'Hysterical raisins is a play on words of the term "historical reasons", [...]' >> and it also has an xref (hyper link) to " http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html"; which adds, << " [...]indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place" >> -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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