In message <E14LpXc-0000ET-00@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:

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I'd love to see a detailed description of what went wrong, and I hope that those in the know will be allowed to post it or present it in Atlanta.

was it not don knuth's turing aware lecture which consisted of a detailed analysys of some recent bugs in his code?

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