Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!sactoh0!bfbreedl From: bfbreedl@sactoh0.UUCP (Bob F. Breedlove) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: GROK THIS!! Summary: Point Missed!?!? Keywords: grok Message-ID: <571@sactoh0.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 88 15:28:22 GMT References: <1289@leah.Albany.Edu> <3454@ttidca.TTI.COM> <767@quintus.UUCP> <1803@scolex> Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA Lines: 18 In article <1803@scolex>, brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) writes: > In article <767@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: > > > >To quote the book "'grok' means 'drink'". (Hence "absorb completely".) > > Any way, this topiuc doesn't really belong in this group > anymore. It seems to me that the series of messages discussing the origin of this term have missed a more important point -- what is such an obscure term doing in a message in the first place? Error and informative messages SHOULD NOT require several hundred (?) messages to clarify their meaning. Imaging if this had been an ERROR message! -- Bob Breedlove SYSOP: BOBsBBS (916/929-7511) pacbell!sactoh0!bfbreedl