At 06:36 PM 4/9/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:00 PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

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At 06:01 PM 4/9/03 +0100, Jim Dixon wrote: If your native language is written using a western alphabet,

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characters are hard to learn. But once learned, they are conveniently concise.

Yes, one's first operating system is always the best.

If there is any insinuation that this implies to _computer_ OSes, I disagree completely.

I was making a tacit reference to the oft-claimed resolution to the OS, proglanguage, etc. religious wars. Ie, a lot of folks' biasses are due to their personal history. That you have not succumbed may have to do with the horribleness of OSes in your past, or mere rationality. ... When I hear someone say there are limits to freedom of speech, I want to pick up a gun. -Anon, Cpunks 29.3.03