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Otto Wyss

2004-08-27, 6:21 pm

Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

>
> It's always funny to observe people's contradictions:
>
>
> Last week i bought a chain saw with a
> twisted handle. Perhaps i wasn't
> careful, but by accident it chopped one
> of my arm off, then i thought to myself
> "gosh, this is POWERFUL!". This seems to
> be the fashionable mode of thinking
> among the unixers or unixer-to-be, who


Thanks, for the clarification. For a none native English it's sometimes
difficult to grasp the underlying meaning. And do I understand it right
that Xah Lee _speaks_ against "Unixism" instead of producing code?

Well then I may point at "wyoism", the cult of the code producer.
;-)

O. Wyss

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