| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]> | Funny point: the abstract calls Cray "the ultimate "tall, thin | man"*." but the notes on slide three call him the penultimate one. I | wonder who the ultimate one is if the notes are correct.
I emailed Gordon Bell about this and he says that he was mistaken about the meaning of "penultimate" when he wrote that. I used "penultimate" in a draft of my masters thesis but my supervisor suggested replacing it with "second last" because it was more likely to be understood and in no way inferior. He was right. --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
