[SLL] Hidy

Pann McCuaig pann at ourmanpann.com
Tue Dec 18 10:12:53 PST 2007


On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:51, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Brian Lane wrote:
> 
> > Chuck Wolber wrote:
> >
> > > sendmail == Just works except for the one thing you need it to do
> > 
> > EXACTLY! You set it up years ago, it 'Just Works(TM)', and hell if you 
> > can remember how to configure it after all this time or even that you 
> > actually have an MTA installed.
> 
> Don't forget that the sendmail configuration syntax is Turing complete. 
> You could indeed write a Linux kernel or a Java compiler all in Sendmail 
> configuration syntax! Now wouldn't that be fun!!!!!!!!!!!

Reminds me of a DECUS meeting at which Fortran users were complaining
about the lack of a (DEC) cross-platform modern (F77?) Fortran compiler.
One attendee suggested that since teco was available on all DEC
platforms . . .

Cheers,
 Pann (who knows this is off-topic but remembers teco fondly)
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