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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: come from joke
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Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> writes:

> "COME FROM" started as a joke but is no longer one: the Intercal
> programming language uses this construct. See
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/

It is also the style favoured by use case writers, at least the ones I
have experience of (the claim is that the style is per Alan Cockburn,
but I've lost my copy ..)

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.