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Re: Record Day on IDL Newsgroup [message #20954 is a reply to message #20951]

Tue, 01 August 2000 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

Senior Member

Mark Hadfield wrote:
>
> And so the IDLers, weary from their day of frantic posting, go to their
> beds.
>
> "Oh I wish, I *wish*," they say to themselves, "that *my* wish makes David's
> top 10." And in the small hours when dark thoughts arise they will think, "I
> hope, I *hope* that there *will* be a top 10. Surely David would never let
> us down." For, as a very wise man has said, "IDL users are ever hopeful but
> never satisfied."
>
> And on the other side of the world, where people are getting ready to go to
> their homes in the winter evening, a few persistent souls notice that a calm
> has descended on comp.lang.idl-pvwave.
>
> ---
> Mark Hadfield
> m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
> National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
> PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

Perhaps we should rename the newsgroup to comp.lang.idl-poetry ;-?
Fortunately,
Europe has a six hour head start wrt to the US -- I always enjoy the
off-and-on-topics
first thing in the morning...

Very nice, Mark.

Cheers,
Martin

PS: couldn't David just send in 100 wishes and say it was a typo ?

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		Re: Record Day on IDL Newsgroup By: davidf on Tue, 01 August 2000 00:00
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