[ExI] Enlightenment

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Fri May 14 14:56:54 UTC 2010


On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> I'm a little intrigued by Tomasz's email sig:
>>
>> ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.      **
>> ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home    **
>> ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...      **
>
> Oh, hang on, does "the programmer's home directory" refer to the programmer himself, not his computer?  Yes, it does, doesn't it.

No, it refers to a directory on the computer where personal files are stored.

And shouldn't that be "rm -rf", without the "i"?

-Dave




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