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From: jgoodsen@trinidad.radsoft.com (John Goodsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.windows.x
Subject: the X rule (was Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?)
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Date: 04 Dec 1994 15:32:25 GMT
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In article <3bj0lu$ruq@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:

   >  I guess to someone who knows how to spell "Ada" correctly, it should
   >be pointed out that the official name is `the X window system' 
   >(a window system named `X'), but certainly not `X Windows'.

   Yep, you're right. Sorry.

Actually, the "official" name in the ranks is just plain "X".
This is also known as the "rule of X".
Anyone who says "window" or "windows" within 2-3 words of "X"
in a sentence is automatically identified as a green X developer.
I'm trying to get the X community to associate some type of 
mandatory obligation to buy the first round of beers to anyone
who breaks the "rule of X".  Any votes?

followup to comp.windows.x

   >(The latter suggesting a relation to `MS Windows,' which couldn't be 
   >further from the truth of course ;-).

   Indeed.

indeed squared
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