On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, peter dalgaard wrote:
On 29 Feb 2016, at 19:54 , Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk>
wrote:
PS: somehow "historical" would be less unnerving than "archeological"
At least I didn't say palaeontological.
So John should feel more like stone age than dinosaur?
(Some portion of this must be a fortune candidate!)
:-) Unless anyone objects:
R> fortune(373)
Barry Rowlingson: I've been unable to locate any version of S online. Does
anyone have a copy, somewhere, rusting away on an old hard disk or slowly
flaking off a tape? [...] Obviously this would be for archaeological
purposes.
John Chambers: [...] somehow "historical" would be less unnerving than
"archeological".
Barry Rowlingson: At least I didn't say palaeontological.
-- Barry Rowlingson and John Chambers (on the availability of the
source code for early versions of S)
R-devel (February 2016)
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