7 Mar
2006
7 Mar
'06
2:05 a.m.
In message <200603070017.k270HVAl009020 at yagi.h-net.msu.edu>
Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
Strike "hardware". One of my favorites is
the Prime Fortran manual
index vintage late 70's or early 80's, which contained (from memory)
the following three entries:
Circular reasoning - see proof by assumption
Proof by assumption - see petitio principii
Petitio principii - see circular reasoning
Some of the Borland Turbo Pascal manuals allegedly had something similar:
Infinite loop - see Loop, infinite
Loop, infinite - see Infinite loop
IIRC there were a couple more gems in there, but I can't remember any of
them...
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