7 Mar
2006
7 Mar
'06
12:17 a.m.
Whatever happened to a bit of dry humor in computer
hardware manuals? :)
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
scattered about on several pages in alphabetical order.
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