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revx on Jan 16, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Explainer on Unix’s Most Notorious Code Comment

Related, a talk on the famous mv error, "Values of β may give rise to dom!" from !!Con 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyLnF9U18rY

userbinator on Jan 17, 2017 [–]

A very close match for this phrase can be found in

https://books.google.com/books?id=n3vVBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA429&lpg=...

which gives credence to the original story that it was part of an interrupted prinout.

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