From: joehorn@usa.net
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Subject: Roo-man & Joey, #5
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 15:34:14 GMT
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[Ever hope to add a special feature to a program only to find that
it showed up by itself quite by accident?  And then you list it as
one of the features of the program, as if you had slaved away for
hours on the code for that feature?  Yes, it happens to all serious
programmers... even the HP-75 Design Team, as the following proves.
-jkh-]

    The <null> statement will delete the line# given.
    20<null> will delete statement 20.
    Just <null> deletes line 0 in the calculator file.
    "Computational consistency, Roo-man, that's great!"
    "All in a day's work, Joey."
    "Admit it, you vulcanized imitation of an outback marsupial! You
didn't plan that! You were lucky!"
    "Who is that? What does he mean, Roo-man?"
    "Uh, ehr, just some nut, Joey. Ignore him."

		--excerpt from the HP-75 Internal Design Specification
		[They just don't write docs like they used to.  -jkh-]