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From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate !doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!glasgow!unix.brighton.ac.uk!je@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (John E
Subject: Re: "the so-called Beaujolais effect"
Date: 27 Apr 93 14:34:33 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Apr27.143433.19552@unix.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)

stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:
: The term "Beaujolais effect" was coined during the original
: Ada 83 design effort, when Jean Ichbiah promised a bottle
: of Beaujolais to anyone who could find an instance of the following:
     ^^^^^^^^^^
So, was he trying to *discourage* people from finding any such instance?
(Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
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1993-04-27 14:34 cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate [this message]
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1993-05-10 14:54 "the so-called Beaujolais effect" Mike Zwilling
1993-04-26 16:05 Tucker Taft
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