[ExI] Enlightenment

[Tomasz Rola]

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Damien Broderick wrote:

> On 5/14/2010 12:30 PM, Dave Sill wrote:
> 
> > > > > >  And shouldn't that be "rm -rf", without the "i"?
> > > >
> > > >  I would say, all letters are important ;-)...
> >
> > So you're saying the master didn't actually remove anything? Or are
> > you implying that master selectively removed files? Or...?
> 
> The master changed or removed nothing while adding the capacity to be (in
> Lilly's terms) metaprogrammed?

Actually, the whole story takes place on another planet, very much like 
our Earth, somewhere in the Universe. They do not have Richard Stallman 
there (well, he is unique apparently), so no GNU either. But they have 
their own version of UNIX. Unfortunately, rm has been written by an intern 
during summer holidays. So, unlike GNU rm, one can give "i" and "f" 
options to it and they both have effect at the same time ("f" does not 
cancel "i").

Folks, it's a joke in my own special way. If I explain too much, the fun 
is gone.

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

--
** 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...      **
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** Tomasz Rola          mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com             **