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Re: time between time


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: time between time
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 01:42:08 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

John Yates wrote:

>>   (let*((d 08) ; bonus points if anyone knows
>> what happened then (m 05) (y 1978)
>
> RMS's response to first SPAM, a posting for
> a job at DEC?

Hah :) What? :O

No, for the record it was the first summit of
Mt Everest without supplemental oxygen. [1]

But: One never wants to add data to a program
which has no meaning - the data has no meaning,
that is - and "meaning" here in terms of the
program, of course - one never wants to do
that, but here I couldn't come up with a way to
do it otherwise, at least not without thinking
beyond what I thought was motivated as the
"no-meaning data" solution still solved the
problem with the time program. I didn't have
the time to do it any better than that...


     Timeline! This is no time to argue about
     time. We don't have the time!

            -- TROI, First Contact (1996) [2]


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Habeler
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner

[2] http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html

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