Text written by Anand Buddhdev at 06:16 PM 6/14/99 +0300:
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>Anyway, why go to all this hassle. There are ready programs to do exactly
>this for you - unix systems come built in with a vacation message, and
>there's one available on www.qmail.org if you don't like the built-in
>vacation program.
While I think it's a good thing that you mentioned the preexisting software
to Mr. Kitabjian, I'd like to point out that writing software, even
software that's already been written, is an important part of learning to
program. It's possible that's what he's doing.
Or, to put it another way, re-inventing the wheel is a waste of time for
normal people -- but not for people who are learning to be wheelwrights. :)
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
block transfer computations /n./
[from the television series "Dr. Who"] Computations so fiendishly
subtle and complex that they could not be performed by machines. Used
to refer to any task that should be expressible as an algorithm in
theory, but isn't.
