screwin' with the time machine in Canada, eh (was: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 214, extended print statement)
Trent Mick
trentm@ActiveState.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:21:22 -0700
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:58:25PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
>
> OTOH, there is *some* evidence that an amateur went mucking with the time
> machine! No 19-bit architectures, but somewhere in a reality distortion
> field around Vancouver, it appears that AIX actually survived long enough to
> see the 64-bit world, and that some yahoo vendor decided to make a version
> of C where sizeof(void*) > sizeof(long). There's no way either of those
> could have happened naturally.
>
And though this place is supposed to be one the more successful pot havens on
the planet I just can't seem to compete with the stuff those "vendors" in
Austin (AIX) and Seattle must have been smokin'.
<puff>-<inhale>-if-i-wasn't-seeing-flying-bunnies-i-would-swear-that-compiler
is-from-SCO-ly-y'rs - trent
> even-worse-i-woke-up-today-*old*!-ly y'rs - tim
Come on up for a visit and we'll make you feel young again. :)
Trent
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Trent Mick