2003-01-23 06:05:04, John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:

>Nicholas Bodley scripsit:
>
>> What/who does "Tironian" refer to?
>
>Traditionally, to Cicero's freedman and amanuensis, Tiro,

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Thanks!

>--
>"No, John. I want formats that are actually
>useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that
>address all questions by piling on ridiculous
>internal links in forms which are hideously
>over-complex." --Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev

CSS seems also to have become quite abstruse at times.

Is Occam's razor dull?

Reminds me of the comments about PL/I (PL/1?), the all-
purpose, comprehensive IBM programming language of the past.

Nicholas Bodley ||@|| Waltham, Mass.
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