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Subject: New Wirth-less joke
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Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 13:20:26 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 30 13:20:26 1984
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[A line of small Wirth and no name]

>  Your wish is my command.  From the 'fortune' data file:

>  Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his
>  name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into
>  (Nick-les Worth).  Which is to say that Europeans call him by name,
>  but Americans call him by value.
>  --

	"Trivia is important."		Ron Christian
	    (syntax bug)		Watkins-Johnson Co.
					San Jose, Calif.
					(...ios!wjvax!ron)
. [end quote]


Actually, the story is that the Europeans pronounce his first name
"Nik-lowse", dialectical German for "nicht Laus" meaning "no bug"
(i.e., "no louse"), whereas the Americans pronounce it "Nick-less"
meaning invulnerable to bugs (some say "Nickle-less", meaning if he's
so clever, why isn't he richer?).

(Brought on by an overexposure to replies to a request for the real
Wirth joke)

          Gordon Fisher