Orthogonal (fwd)

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> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 05:05:07 +0100 (MET)
> From: Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM>
> Re: Orthogonal
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Like the rest of the mentaly mastubatory on here, you missed the *entire*
point of my original question.

How did the word get there, NOT what the word means. I KNOW what and how
to use the word.

Some of you people are fucking worthless for anything other than baiting.


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An entity claiming to be Jim Choate wrote:

: 
: How did the word get there, NOT what the word means. I KNOW what and how
: to use the word.

I agree with Jim, we have shown WHAT orthogonal means to the fields of
programming languages, computer theory, and software engineering.  The
question is WHY it was adopted.


: 
: Some of you people are fucking worthless for anything other than baiting.

Oh, come now, any human has many uses if you put your mind to it.
A cheap, renewable replacement for ballistic test gelatin, maybe? ;)

Mark

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