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Re: Strange and wonderful prog names (was Re: Worst error messages...)

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From: graemet Graeme Thomas - UK rando...
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 21:09
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In article <8...@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> s...@deakin.OZ.AU (Stephen Percy Larcombe) writes:
>I thought it was Dynamic Debugging Technique (I maybe wrong), but I
>do remember some documentation saying that it was as effective on
>computer bugs as dichloro d..... (what ever ddt stood for chemicaly)
>was on organic bugs.

An insect was heard to complain,
That chemists had poisoned his brain.
    The cause of his sorrow,
    Was para-dichloro-
Diphenyltrichloroethane.

(This is not original, but I haven't a clue who wrote it.)

Graeme
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Graeme Thomas          Santa Cruz Operation London
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