OT: reference book(s)

[Bill Vermillion]

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On Tue, Aug 24 01:19  Kenneth Brody said: 

> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> [...]
> > [I miss those old days of "my language is better than your
> > language" and all the stories that went with them.
> > 
> > Their mottos was "real programmers do it in Fortran. If you can't
> > do it in Fortran, do it in assembly.  If you can't do it in
> > assembly, it isn't worth doing".
> [...]
> 
> For the epitome of "real programmers" stories, read "The Story of Mel":
> 
>     http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TheStoryofMel.html
> 

One of my all time favorites.  I've always had a copy of that
stashed somewhere to send to the unsuspecting.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com