From: Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Latin and other irrelevant topics
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:06:14 -0800
Date: 2001-01-26T21:08:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A71E6C6.A9BCA4CC@ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSF.4.21.0101250921430.10262-100000@shell5.ba.best.com
Brian Rogoff wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > Decimate refers to the practice in the Roman army of punishing
> > a failing unit of an army by randomly executing one out of ten
> > members.
>
> Now that's interesting. I wonder if the US military will reintroduce the
> practice to keep software quality high now that Ada is being replaced by
> C++ ;-)
Well, since we are getting silly, does anyone know how Roman soldiers
counted off?
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, ...
I'm not going to sign this. :-)
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2001-01-26 16:31 ` Latin and other irrelevant topics Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 20:24 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-27 5:12 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-27 13:58 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 16:25 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-28 0:09 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 0:08 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Robert Dewar
2001-01-28 3:51 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-28 13:00 ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-29 1:40 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 4:23 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 5:29 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:32 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 17:34 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 6:04 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 17:39 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 18:53 ` David Starner
2001-01-30 6:15 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-30 15:54 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30 19:32 ` Martin Dowie
2001-02-02 22:11 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 0:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-29 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-30 1:21 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-29 23:05 ` kopilovitch
2001-02-02 21:52 ` Latin, Shakespeare, Ecclesiastes " Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 1:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-02-05 16:32 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-05 19:36 ` Al Christians
2001-02-07 18:59 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-08 19:19 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 5:15 ` Latin, Shakespeare, " Buz Cory
2001-02-08 7:38 ` Al Christians
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2001-02-08 16:00 ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-08 19:47 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-26 21:06 ` Lao Xiao Hai [this message]
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2001-01-26 15:37 ` Latin " Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 15:58 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-26 21:11 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2001-01-26 23:43 ` Nick Williams
2001-01-27 14:22 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-27 15:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-01-27 16:28 ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-28 0:05 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-28 8:48 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-29 1:49 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 7:01 ` dejmej
2001-01-29 13:22 ` Ken Garlington
2001-02-02 21:46 ` Mark Lundquist
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