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numerals, Roman, large, overly, printing of, how to do it
- To: Guy Steele <gls@THINK.COM>
- Subject: numerals, Roman, large, overly, printing of, how to do it
- From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 1987 15:14:00 -0000
- Cc: common-lisp@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- In-reply-to: Msg of 22 May 1987 10:55-EDT from Guy Steele <gls at Think.COM>
- Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU
Implementors are informally encouraged to print either the decimal
equivalent, or else the phrase
GUIDO CANTABRIGIENSIS PERDITOR PERDELIRUS
OK, somebody has to ask: What, O mighty and imponederable Quux, does
this phrase mean in English, if indeed it is translatable and not too
obscene for transmission via netmail?
My Latin stopped with "Sic Friat Crustulum": So crumbles the cookie.
(Actually, I think it's "biscuit" -- the Romans seem not have had
cookies in the modern sense, since Cortes had not yet conquered the land
where chocolate chips grow.)
-- Scott