Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!lwall From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Re: Line eater bug Message-ID: <1395@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 15:28:34 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1395 Posted: Thu Oct 18 15:28:34 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 12:45:47 EDT References: <1376@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <196@bragvax.UUCP> <6083@mcvax.UUCP> <579@bunker.UUCP> Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 33 Summary: In article <579@bunker.UUCP> garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes: >I found it amusing that the following article about the line >eater bug was itself a victim of the selfsame bug (the bug >has a self-preservation instinct!): > >> Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP >> Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP >> Path: bunker!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!mcvax!guido >> From: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) >> ... >> >> thout me. Has it ever occured to >> anybody that this might be the case? >> >> -- >> Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam >> guido@mcvax.UUCP >> >> "Immorality may be something, but it does not take the place of virtue >> and three square meals a day." Actually, I have to wonder to myself whether guido hasn't scored again. Perhaps the sentence that got truncated originally read something like this: >> Anybody who thinks this was really a truncated message has forgotten about >> kremvax and has reckoned without me. Has it ever occured [<--emacs user?] >> to anybody that this might be the case? Well, it certainly occurred to me. Larry Wall, "Stamp In Ada" Committee, SDC, Santa Monica {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall