Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.5 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!seefromline From: hosking@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan Message-ID: <16400015@convexs> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 19:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.16400015 Posted: Sat Jul 13 19:51:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 05:43:38 EDT References: <714@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:vax2.fluke.UUCP:-71400:convexs:16400015:000:717 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!hosking Jul 13 18:51:00 1985 >On the Data General MV/10000 running AOS/VS, if you type the command > ) xyzzy > > It replies > > Nothing happens. > > That's what happens when you let computer jocks write your software.... Almost right... The fun part is that if you have an xyzzy.cli, it is executed properly. Note that this is the ONLY case in the entire CLI where macros have higher precedence than built in commands. I used to work with the guy who added this feature. He spent quite a few hours trying to figure out exactly where in the 5 inch thick, 16 bit assembly code listing to put this, and had quite a lot of fun watching people try to figure out what was going on. Doug Hosking Convex Computer Corp. Richardson, TX