Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Christopher Hassell) | Subject | Re: Not a bible thumper. . . | Date | Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:15:13 -0600 (MDT) |
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Lo and indeed Systemkennung Linux sayeth in the text...
[those who are parod-ically impaired must realize this above is known as a joke]
# Hi,
#>I just did a few 'find's because I was curious.. I'm not suggesting that we #>change these, just something to chew on. The only one that reaches the user is #>the UFS driver.
# ["fuck"-ing sources deleted]
# I you have ever spent some night tracking bugs you'd know that the skill # that all programmers share is swearing. These sources are just like live # and I don't intend to waste a second just to make 'em political correct.
It sounds to me like you a spent very late night writing this.
I refuse to believe that the one skill I share with all my compatriots in cryptitudinous constellationizing (**) is that they can use four heavily meaningless and overused words in something someone just called a "skillful" manner. I know of no such "skill" there that my friends desire to envy either.
I say lots of interesting long and creative curses, epithets and even a few of the four words at my CRT when debugging late into the night. I don't consider them to be my best or even a typical snippet of my speech, as emotional as they definately are.
# Ralf (Whose best comments luckily never got published ...)
What makes the use of "fuck" "shit" "asshole" etc... skillful, anyway? Go ride the 15 bus on a saturday night and you'll hear lots of "skill" I suppose.
(More creative uses of these four words form your "Best" comments?)
I don't know about you, but being able to shock the very SMALL (i.e. not big) number of people who are completely shocked by the four Great Words is not a skill at all... but the random semblance of it. Any desire to shock and shock and shock instead of say something is not politically correct, but is a plethora of oversupplied un-creativity.
Push the envelope. Use a wider realm of ideas and tastes. More folks will listen to us than the folks who love those four words. (Most don't type.)
[** "Code arranging." I make no claims to be using actual English(tm) words or phrases, but I attempt to use them on the TV. The case has scuff marks now. (Ahh there's a hacker skill which started long ago, imaginary vocaulary.)]
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