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From: Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada's birthday
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:06:36 +0100
Date: 2010-12-12T15:06:36+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ipyzhyqb.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e8257de0-e4af-4982-a706-732bf400757d@s5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com

AdaMagica <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> writes:

>    Congratulation
>       on Your
> 195th/30th Birthday,
>      Lady Ada
>
> Primeval times when Babbage dwelt:
> not were bit nor byte

I would think that

  'neither bit nor byte'

would scan a little better. 'Not were' sounds a bit weird to my
ears. Then again, I'm not a native speaker, however good my English may
be.

> nor operating system,
> not hardware below
> nor above software,
> abyss abundant,
> but computer nowhere.

Mart

-- 
"We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes."
    --- AJS, quoting an uncertain source.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-12 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-10  8:15 Ada's birthday Dan
2010-12-10  9:52 ` AdaMagica
2010-12-10 15:28   ` sjw
2010-12-10 16:56     ` AdaMagica
2010-12-10 20:18   ` Warren
2010-12-11 16:05     ` AdaMagica
2010-12-12 14:06   ` Mart van de Wege [this message]
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