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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

fucnrdthsucngtagdjb !!!

The following is an email from John Eaton, principal author explaining a 'curious' variable name in Octave manual. LOL.
Cheers,
Muthu


Message: 4
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:17:03 -0400
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Subject: LOL
To: S?ren Hauberg <soren@hauberg.org>
Cc: octave bug mailing list <bug@octave.org>
Message-ID: <17993.2575.632481.664491@segfault.lan>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

On 15-May-2007, S?ren Hauberg wrote:

| I just saw the following in vars.txi
|
| @cindex job hunting
| @cindex getting a good job
| @cindex flying high and fast
|
| I have no idea why these lines are there, but it sure is funny. I'm not
| attaching a patch to remove them since I find them quite amusing. I'm
| just curious, if there's a story behind these lines?

The example that follows has the (valid) variable name

fucnrdthsucngtagdjb

It's an old joke.

jwe

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