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* Alan Cox has been...
@ 2003-06-24 12:08 Rick A. Hohensee
  2003-06-24 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Rick A. Hohensee @ 2003-06-24 12:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

John BRadford
>> Alan Cox has been replaced by a sh script. GNU too. I must admit though,
>> it's a whopping 115k.
>
>I can't find it on ftp.gnu.org, so I am assuming that that was a
>joke.
>

I think you think I mean the shell script is GNU too. I mean the shell
script replaces GNU too, which is why it could be a while before you see
it on gnu.org.

That sourcecode I posted is for my assembler in Bash, osimplay. Some
people think it's funny. Personally, I think 64k of asm("") in Linux is
funny.

"Let's face it. C sucks." Alan Cox, puctuation added by me, obviously.

Unlike Alan, I did something about it. And like C, I have no use any
longer for Alan.

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/install/clienux/interim/osimplay.tgz


Rick Hohensee


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* Re: Alan Cox has been...
  2003-06-24 12:08 Alan Cox has been Rick A. Hohensee
@ 2003-06-24 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
  2003-06-24 15:48   ` Paul Rolland
                     ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Martin J. Bligh @ 2003-06-24 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Rick A. Hohensee, linux-kernel

> Unlike Alan, I did something about it. And like C, I have no use any
> longer for Alan.

And yet, somehow ... you think we have a use for you?

Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the knowledge
who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.

M.


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* Re: Alan Cox has been...
  2003-06-24 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
@ 2003-06-24 15:48   ` Paul Rolland
  2003-06-24 16:02     ` chas williams
  2003-06-24 16:40   ` Steven Cole
  2003-06-24 18:21   ` Werner Almesberger
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Paul Rolland @ 2003-06-24 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Martin J. Bligh', 'Rick A. Hohensee',
	linux-kernel

Hello,

> Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the 
> knowledge who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.

I was the remaining 0.000000001%, and I just changed my mind ;-)
You can say 100% now....

Regards,
Paul


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* Re: Alan Cox has been...
  2003-06-24 15:48   ` Paul Rolland
@ 2003-06-24 16:02     ` chas williams
  2003-06-24 18:37       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: chas williams @ 2003-06-24 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul Rolland
  Cc: 'Martin J. Bligh', 'Rick A. Hohensee',
	linux-kernel

In message <014c01c33a68$07ed2e20$5700a8c0@witbe>,"Paul Rolland" writes:
>I was the remaining 0.000000001%, and I just changed my mind ;-)
>You can say 100% now....

with about 5e9 people in the world, there must be 4 others somewhere.

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* Re: Alan Cox has been...
  2003-06-24 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
  2003-06-24 15:48   ` Paul Rolland
@ 2003-06-24 16:40   ` Steven Cole
  2003-06-24 18:21   ` Werner Almesberger
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Steven Cole @ 2003-06-24 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Martin J. Bligh; +Cc: Rick A. Hohensee, linux-kernel

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:05, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Unlike Alan, I did something about it. And like C, I have no use any
> > longer for Alan.
> 
> And yet, somehow ... you think we have a use for you?
> 

I thought there was already a hardware implementation of this:

http://www.alancoxonachip.com/

Although rumor has it that the "Four levels of power management" patch
was only recently merged.

Steven


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* Re: Alan Cox has been...
  2003-06-24 18:21   ` Werner Almesberger
@ 2003-06-24 18:16     ` Martin J. Bligh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Martin J. Bligh @ 2003-06-24 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Werner Almesberger; +Cc: Rick A. Hohensee, linux-kernel

--On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 15:21:54 -0300 Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net> wrote:

> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the knowledge
>> who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.
> 
> Hmm, I'm not sure Alan has the necessary skills to design an
> assembler that looks like the glue-sniffing bastard son from
> a drunken encounter of Intercal and APL ;-)

Please note the use of the word "useful" at the end of my sentence.
It was not accidental ;-)

M.


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* Re: Alan Cox has been...
  2003-06-24 15:05 ` Martin J. Bligh
  2003-06-24 15:48   ` Paul Rolland
  2003-06-24 16:40   ` Steven Cole
@ 2003-06-24 18:21   ` Werner Almesberger
  2003-06-24 18:16     ` Martin J. Bligh
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Werner Almesberger @ 2003-06-24 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Martin J. Bligh; +Cc: Rick A. Hohensee, linux-kernel

Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Given a choice between Alan and you, I feel confident in the knowledge
> who 99.999999999% of the world would find more useful.

Hmm, I'm not sure Alan has the necessary skills to design an
assembler that looks like the glue-sniffing bastard son from
a drunken encounter of Intercal and APL ;-)

- Werner

-- 
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 / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina         wa@almesberger.net /
/_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/

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* Re: Alan Cox has been...
  2003-06-24 16:02     ` chas williams
@ 2003-06-24 18:37       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Valdis.Kletnieks @ 2003-06-24 18:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: chas3
  Cc: Paul Rolland, 'Martin J. Bligh',
	'Rick A. Hohensee', linux-kernel

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:02:31 EDT, chas williams said:

> with about 5e9 people in the world, there must be 4 others somewhere.

(originally said about Usenet):

"There is no theory so bizarre and implausible that somebody, somewhere,
won't subscribe to it.  The proof is left as an exercise for your killfile" 
	-- Author Unknown

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