From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Subject: Re: Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:00:09 -0800
Date: 2002-02-13T01:53:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C69C8A9.4304293A@adaworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cGTmEM4YRAPJ@eisner.encompasserve.org
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <5ee5b646.0202111821.4dba9889@posting.google.com>, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
>
> > This seems to me a tempest in a teapot (nice english phrase
> > meaning Much Ado About Nothing (entertating Shakespeare
> > title, meaning a lot of fuss about a small point)).
>
> The phrase is quite familiar to me with a non-classical US education.
It is hilarious when one understands the slang meaning of "nothing" during
Shakespeare's time. Sorry, cannot print it here for this family audience.
You will need to research it on your own.
Richard Riehle
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2002-02-09 23:31 Restrictions on compilers for Microsoft's .NET project Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-10 5:26 ` Britt Snodgrass
2002-02-11 16:59 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-11 17:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-11 17:34 ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-11 18:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-11 19:20 ` Martin Dowie
2002-02-11 19:31 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-02-12 2:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-12 3:22 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-12 16:33 ` Stephen Leake
2002-02-12 19:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-13 2:00 ` Richard Riehle [this message]
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