Do not use hammer. :) (fwd)

[Tom Peters]

Recursive, adj., see "recursive."

At 02:05 AM 3/7/2006 +0000, you wrote:
>In message <200603070017.k270HVAl009020 at yagi.h-net.msu.edu>
>           Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Strike "hardware".  One of my favorites is the Prime Fortran manual
> > index vintage late 70's or early 80's, which contained (from memory)
> > the following three entries:
> >
> >       Circular reasoning - see proof by assumption
> >       Proof by assumption - see petitio principii
> >       Petitio principii - see circular reasoning
>
>Some of the Borland Turbo Pascal manuals allegedly had something similar:
>
>    Infinite loop - see Loop, infinite
>    Loop, infinite - see Infinite loop
>
>IIRC there were a couple more gems in there, but I can't remember any of
>them...
>
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