From: Shirley Peters <peters@asel.udel.edu 

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Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:57:50 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: burn out!
   

Colleagues,

Is this where we are all headed?  


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    An actual page from the Scsh Reference Manual.  Scsh is from MIT -- yet
    another shell scripting language.(using Scheme this time)
    
    Kudos to Will Ware for discovering it in the first place -- I just extracted
    the text back out of the postscript file.
    
    URL: http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/scsh/html/obtaining.html
    
    -Dave S.
    
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    Scsh Reference Manual
    For scsh release 0.4
    Olin Shivers and Brian D. Carlstrom
    November 18,1995 15:58 DRAFT
    
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    Acknowledgements
    
    Who should I thank?  My so-called "colleagues", who laugh at me behind my
    back, all the while becoming famous on my work?  My worthless graduate
    students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps
    off of netnews?  My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit "fooling
    around with computers", go to med school, and become a radiologist?  My
    department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy
    for disgruntled postal workers?
    
    My God, no one could blame me -- no one! -- if I went off the edge and just
    lost it completely one day.  I couldn't get through the day as it is without
    the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS
    manuals.  I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my
    advisor meetings.  A 10 oz. Jack'n Zac helps me get through the meetings
    without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a
    bowling-ball bag.  They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot.  I'm
    not twitching.  I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from
    my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate
    education in Amerika.
    
    If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this,
    I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible
    moment.  But no one does, and no one will.  So I can pretty much say exactly
    what I think.
    
    Oh, yes, the *acknowledgements*.  I think not.  I did it.  I did it all, by
    myself.
    
                                                   Olin  Shivers
                                                   Cambridge
                                                   September 4, 1994
    
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