Help with question about web page access

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 18 17:04:06 CDT 2004


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> 
> And realy yes, MS gave eMail a bad name, especialy with
> their stupid way of quoteing. I mean, can this be called
> quoteing at all?  Adding the whole mail and just puting
> the cursor at the beginning? I get often mails at work
> that are the result of 10 or more such actions ...
> 
> Maybe the guy who invented the shit was a huge fan of
> HP calculators ... reading previous mails in reverse order.


Hey, I resemble that remark!

HP calculators are the only ones I use (I must have a few 10's of them
now) _becasue_ they're the only ones that do things in a logical order
(namely a function is executed when you press the key, there are no hidden
pending operations). 

Infix notation is like M$. It only survives because people are used to 
it. Once you've learnt something better (prefix or postfix notation), you 
never go back.

-tony



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