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Re: Mysterious disappearing objects (bugs in IDLgrWindow::Draw) [message #26399] Thu, 30 August 2001 15:58 Go to previous message
Andrew Cool is currently offline  Andrew Cool
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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Andrew Cool (andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au) writes:
>
>> Who's this Tolkin woman? No doubt some American re-writing
>> literary history, just as Hollywood would have us believe that
>> the Yanks captured the Enigma machine in WW2, etc, etc.
>>
>> J.R.R. Tolkien, twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon English at Oxford,
>> wrote some rather good books ... ;-)
>
> It's my humble opinion that all you computer
> geeks are *WAY* too overly concerned with spelling!
>
> You know what Twain said (no, not Shania, Mark):
> "Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word
> obviously lacks imagination."
>

Yep, David, you've got it in one - that's why we read Tolkien,
who had more than enough imagination to go around.

Why improve on perfection? I would never dream of altering
one of your programs.. ;-)

Andrew
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