Subj : Re: Stephenson errata, was Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Arthur J. O'Dwyer
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 03:29 pm


On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote:
>  Not really. Stephenson's like Knuth --- he doesn't have time to read his 
> mail. But I take it that unlike Knuth, he doesn't have a secretary to read 
> his mail for him. Also unlike Knuth, he doesn't typeset his own work --- so

For which, read, "Also unlike Knuth, he doesn't have grad students willing 
to typeset his own work."  :)

> his books have many more errors in them. This is just a tactic to make sure 
> he doesn't open his inbox in 2007 and find a hundred messages from different 
> people /all/ complaining about the extra semicolon on page 732, or something.
>
> -Arthur

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