Re: Optional Features (Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?)

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:20:05 -0400, Gendarme
<endarmegay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tim Bradshaw wrote:

(As the old joke goes, you can tell what D&D
class someone is by what they do before/after ./configure, make, make
install: if they pray beforehand, cleric; begin by sacrificing a goat in
a pentagram drawn with obsidian dust, necro; just type in the commands,
then take a baseball bat to their monitor afterward, warrior; try it,
swear, and then install a pirated copy of Windows on the machine, rogue;
actually get it to compile and run successfully, wizard.)

Interesting joke. Reference?

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