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Article #621272Re: Old word processors
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:37
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:37
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On 2018-03-18, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:20:56 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: > >> On 3/18/2018 4:17 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> >>> On 2018-03-17, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:36:23 -0500, Charles Richmond wrote: >>>> >>>>> Think of the word processors like an interpreter, and the text >>>>> formatter like a compiler. >>>> >>>> I can agree again. :-) >>> >>> Q: What does a word processor do? >>> A: Well, you know what a food processor does to food... >>> >> "If a train station is where a train stops, then what is a work >> station??" > > Cue the one about baby oil. I heard about a baby food company that was having poor sales in a country where the convention was that the picture on the label represented the contents of the jar. Those cute baby pictures on the label had to go. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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