czwartek, 13 grudnia 2001 o 05:28:14 UTC+1 Leo Tohill napisał(a):

"The number you have reached is not in service."
Would be funny, if it were true. The actual message, as I've heard it, is "The number you (have) dialed is not in service."
<wall...@kmsi.net> wrote in message
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Sorry, I can'r resist. This is one of my favorites:

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Bell Laboratories has formally announced what it believes is the ultimate computer science language. Described by Iusi Nogoto, the foremost Japanese fourth generation language expert, as "the only truly elegant computer language ever devised." NULL, as it is known, was developed by the same department that originally invented the wrong number, the busy signal, and the phrase, "The number you have reached is not in service."
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For the rest of the text, see: http://jdurrett.ba.ttu.edu/misc/Null-language.html

Note the name of the programmer. Priceless!

/kenw
Ken Wallewein
Calgary, Alberta
ke...@kmsi.net

You all sound like stuck up bitches, I hope some of you are arleady dead since the thread is from 2 decades ago.

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