Can anyone recomend a good intoduction to C...

[Tom Satter]

"Mats Wichmann" <xyzmats at laplaza.org> wrote in message
news:3aa6551e.212870101 at news.laplaza.org...
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:19:48 GMT, grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards)
> wrote:
>
> Sheesh, an ADM3a.  What luxury. On that you can run vi.  The ADM3, on
> the other hand, only allowed "open" mode - a little better than a line
> editor but not much.  (a totally pointless historical tidbit: it was
> the 3a that allowed the vi mode of ex to creep out to a wider
> population at UC Berkeley and thence to become inflicted on the rest
> of the world. Closely followed by the much-less reliable HP 2621.)
>
> (oops, I smell a flood of "I can top that" comments such as "you had a
> terminal? I learned on a Teletype", "you had a Teletype? I had to
> toggle code in using switches", "you had switches?  I had to use
> Forth!".  Consider that joke already played out, eh).

...our dad and our mother would dance about on our graves,
singing 'alleluia.
And you try and tell the young people of today that.
They won't believe you.

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tom -- just plain old tom
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