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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a WWW page on authorship
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C.K. Smith (smithck@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA) wrote:
> Neil K. Guy (neilg@sfu.ca) wrote:

> Equally notable is the post from Graham in January of that year where he
> asks for information on ZIL, ZIP, and if any compilers for such
> already existed.  There must have been some long nights at the keyboard
> over the next 4 months.

How about the spot in about March 95 where (at nearly the same time) 
Graham says that he absolutely doesn't have time to put module linking 
into Inform, and I says I absolutely don't have time to write a Mac ZIP 
interpreter. :-)

(Then there's the release of MaxZip -- we *are* all checking our early 
highlights, right? -- where I make an announcement, one person posts 
"cool", and then *ten days* go by before the next mention -- which 
consists of someone else saying "Wasn't someone writing a Mac ZIP 
interpreter? What happened to him?")

--Z

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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
