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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Comments
Date: 1999/10/28
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In article <941090045.3snx@jvdsys.stuyts.nl>,
  jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl wrote:
> In article <38162C84.A762A730@mitre.org> eachus@mitre.org writes:
>
> >   In the discussion following, Dijkstra pointed out that to be a
> >compiler developer, you had to speak English, Dutch, German, or
Russian
> >as a young child, even if it was not your "milk tongue."
>
> Wow, with three out of four I qualify...
>
> :-) :-)
>
> --
> --  Jerry van Dijk  | email: jdijk@acm.org

Well, we shouldn't be horribly shocked that he'd make statements
calculated to raise our estimation of developers whose last names start
with "Dijk". :-)

--
T.E.D.


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