Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!jmm
From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Subject: Re: new PostScript book!
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.125543.25097@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <251@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1990Aug23.155615.29394@zoo.toronto.edu> <254@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 90 12:55:43 GMT

In article <254@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
|
|I always wanted to get a copy of as many green books as I could find
|and put them all on the shelf with the Green Book somewhere in the
|middle of all of them.  Like so many other things in life, I never got
|around to it.

My wife used to work at a used book store.  One of the unusual (and
profitable) types of regular orders that they would receive came from
the people who furnish model suites for house construction projects.
They would order "3 yards of green" or similar shelf space x colour
combinations.  They don't expect anyone to read the books, but they
want them to fit in with the room's decor!  Because of the lack of
intent to actually *read* the books, this is a gold mine for the
book store ("Now what has been sitting on the shelves so long that
we know we can't sell it any other way...?").
-- 
Algol 60 was an improvment on most           | John Macdonald
of its successors - C.A.R. Hoare             |   jmm@eci386
