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From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: The International standard paper on Ada !!
Date: 1999/09/27
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Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com> writes:
> I suspect the 'XXX For Dummies' titles have really come to mean 'XXX For
> Those With No Experience In The Area At All' and is not quite so
> pejorative as it might seem.

Still, I've always been tempted to go into a bookstore with a bunch of
yellow on black "is" stickers.  "XXX (Is) For Dummies".

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center           <*>  <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"Oh my gosh!  You are SO ahead of your time!" -- anon.