Re: indexing jokes?

["Ridder, Fred" <F -dot- Ridder -at- DIALOGIC -dot- COM>]

Yes, glossaries are _great_ places to inject humor (or what passes
for it in the world of technoids).  At my last employer (a manufacturer
of DSP boards), the glossary in each manual included several funny
definitions, including two that are classic in their simplicity:

Indirection: see Pointer
Recursive: see Recursive


Fred Ridder  (f -dot- ridder -at- dialogic -dot- com)
Senior Technical Writer
Dialogic Corporation, Parsippany, NJ

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>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Peter Kent [SMTP:techwr -at- ARUNDEL -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Wednesday, June 04, 1997 10:10 PM
>Subject:       Re: indexing jokes?
>
>Here's a glossary joke I used a few years ago; I must admit I didn't make it
>up, I found it elsewhere, but unfortunately don't remember where.
>
>loop, internal; see internal loop
>
>internal loop; see loop, internal
>
>Peter Kent
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