Re: Strip a ™ character

PystCat pystcat at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 12:42:38 EDT 2014


LOL. What's funny is when I read that line, "...it burns. It burns!" I immediately thought of Gollum when he was being tied up.  Good to know it wasn't me.

Maybe I read too much Tolkien....

> On Oct 2, 2014, at 12:28 PM, "Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:11 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Who do you think is sniveling and exactly
>> how fun is if for you to say “it burns. it burns!”?
>> 
>> And who are you saying it to me because the
>> code does not work or LiveCode?  Either way
>> what makes it so fun for you?
> 
> No, not at all.  It's the C. Any C. Especially working in text with C.
> 
> "snivel" was the best word I could come up with for Gollum's voice/tone
> from the Lord of the Rings movie (I think they were binding him with elven
> rope, or some such.).
> 
> I've used, learned, and forgotten more languages that I can recall over the
> years--including C and C++ a couple of times each, raw postscript, and
> coding in LaTeX (from which the [probably mis-syntaxed] "\snivel" line is
> drawn).
> 
> After having written a mailmerge in C++ (or maybe it was C; whatever LyX is
> written in), my reaction to *any* text manipulation in C for the rest of my
> life will probably be that of a vampire to a Crucifix . . .
> 
> C has some wonderful features.  I'd particularly like to be able to use
> it's variable scoping in livecode.  (hmm, that may be all :).  I've been
> personally told by Dennis Ritchie that Ken would agree with my complaint
> that the names of mkdir and rmdir in Unix are bugs, as commands that
> important should have two letter names.
> 
> But I truly hope to go the rest of my life without writing or even reading,
> another line of C.
> 
> It burns.
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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