On 7/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Graham</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Carlton Brooks &lt;<a href="mailto:linux@carltonbrooks.net">linux@carltonbrooks.net</a>&gt;:<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[...snip...]</span><br><br>Yes, the syntax for dd is a bit weird.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is because of Hysterical
<br>Raisins,<br>AFAICT.<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[...snip...]</span><br>---------------------------------------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list -<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
 [...]</span></blockquote></div><br>&gt; Hysterical Raisins,<br><br>from &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_compatibility</a>&quot;:<br>&lt;&lt; <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
&#39;</span>Hysterical raisins is a play on words of the term &quot;historical reasons&quot;, <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[...]&#39;</span> &gt;&gt;<br>and it also has an xref (hyper link) to &quot;<a href="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html">
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html</a>&quot; <br>which adds,<br>&lt;&lt; &quot; <span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[...]</span><a id="hysterical-reasons">indicating specifically that something must be done in some stupid way for
   backwards compatibility, and moreover that the feature it must be
   compatible with was the result of a bad design in the first place&quot;</a> &gt;&gt; <br>-- <br>Mike Schwartz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Glendale&nbsp;&nbsp;AZ <br><a href="mailto:schwartz@acm.org">schwartz@acm.org</a><br><a href="mailto:Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com">
Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com</a>