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| Subject: | Re: FLASH: No more demo FLAs |
| From: | Brian Tully |
| Date: | Sat, 5 Feb 2000 23:18:21 GMT |
Interesting... 99% of the computer books in my library use the "foo/bar"
reference and I don't recall seeing a footnote, copyright symbol or
trademark. Perhaps you should consider a lawsuit against the likes of
O'Reilly, IDG, SAMS, Peachpit Press, etc. By the way, aren't you the guy
who cleverly juxtaposed the unlikely pair of "hello" and "world" to bring us
the ubiquitous and transcendent "Hello,world!"? Keep up the good work.
> From: William Skyvington <sky
kyxar [dot] fr>> Reply-To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 21:21:08 +0100
> To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> Subject: Re: FLASH: No more demo FLAs
>
> As a former member of the Lisp community, I'm shocked by a case of
> flagrant plagiarism in the first issue of the epistle entitled
> "Branden's Brain". At one point, the author expresses himself as
> follows:
>
> Let's say you have some code in the movie clip instance named FOO
> and you want to talk to the movie clip instance named BAR.
>
> When I read this prose, my heart stopped beating for a few
> milliseconds. This rude newbie guy named Branden is stealing
> outrageously our good old "foo bar" LispTalk, and applying it
> stupidly to the geekless Flash ActionScript world, and he's not even
> acknowledging his affinities. Strike him down! What an ugly intruder!
> I'm glad I've captured an image of his tiny brain, so that I can zap
> him out of existence if ever he dares to raise his mindless
> complaints, once again, about being ripped off....
>
> I would have been happy if Branden had said "fool" instead of "foo",
> and "bad" instead of "bar". That would have put him into perspective,
> without offending our old-time Lispers.
>
> Another minor but relevant detail. It's a fact that our innocent
> Branden, who may know how to write code (?), doesn't know how to
> write good English prose.
>
> He might be quiet for a while...
>
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