Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available

[David Given <dg@...>]

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On 15/01/10 17:51, Miles Bader wrote:
> Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> writes:
>> This is a long-standing tradition in the IBM world.
> 
> It's hard for IBM to change a long-standing tradition, but it's pretty
> clear that the _rest_ of the universe has settled on the other
> convention.

I did actually once ask an IBM engineer about it. There was a long
pause, and then he said 'Look, it's *not our fault*, okay?'

Of course, he never said whose fault it actually was.

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