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| I'm not getting into editor wars with you. :-) My syntax was XEDIT. If you've ever written an Xedit macro in exec2 instead of REXX, you're old. Communication was did. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I have by now forgotten what that syntax I used was originally from, but I've gotten used to it on ASR. :) (...) It could be me, but I don't get it? Jasper (25 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) That's a saying/shorthand from NITPICK FORUM back in my IBM days... Here's more detail: "Communication was did." is ungrammatical. Everyone knows it. But most people can quickly parse out that the statement is saying that some communication (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:10:46 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote: Lar also wrote (which attribution he snipped. Naughty Larry.) (...) <snip explanation> (...) Immensely. I'd never seen that particular phrase before - and that's confusing, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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