From: jcoffin{at}taeus.com
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

At 12:33 AM 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:

[ ... ]

>Not to worry... The ultimate name mixup on the old C_Echo came as a result
>of my habit of changing messages where people using MsgEd had quoted me as
>"BS", which I changed in my subsequent replies to
"RBS". This led to some
>predictable discussion with the ultimate C conclusion that, called by
>reference, I was RBS, but called by value, I was BS. ;-)

The real question is whether that was consciously based on Niklaus Wirth's
joke about the pronunciation of his last name (for those who haven't heard
it: "if you call me by name, it is Veert, but if you call me by value, it
is Worth").
         Later,
         Jerry.

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