[Coco] A quote...

[gene heskett]

On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 02:20:22 PM Willard Goosey did opine:

> "Characters are considered signed integers on the PDP-11, and unsigned
> on the other machines.  This persistance of the sign bit may be
> reasonably considered a bug in the PDP-11 hardware which has
> infiltrated itself into the C language."
> 
> --  S.C. Johnson, _Lint, a C Program Checker_, Unix Programmer's
>     Manual Supplementary Documents 1, 4.3 BSD, April 1986
> 
> ;-)
> Willard

I still think the best one was "The printer is on fire!", when it wasn't 
available for instant use. ;-)

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