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Re: [MacPerl] awwwwwww yeah



Martin Wilhelm Leidig <moss@kulmbach.baynet.de> writes:
>Today I got mine from the postman - great, folks! Really cool artwork on
>the cover, hope to get the time to read further this afternoon ...
>
>Btw, Matthias: on the book's back cover you exhort us to "go forth [...],
>and, above all, never forget to have fun" - little reminiscence to Don
>Knuth? ;-)

Don't remember where the "have fun" part came from (It's been part of all
MacPerl README files, as far as I remember). Regarding "Go forth...", I
admittedly have read the TeXbook, but I suspect that I plagiarized it not from
there, but from the New Testament (like Knuth did).

Matthias

-- 
Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
  "Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the
   tradition alive" -- Matt Ruff, _Fool on the Hill_

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