[Coco] obscure programming languages was Re: books

[John W. Linville]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:14:30PM -0500, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> The only good thing about those punch cards was the confetti that they 
> produced. It took my cousin 6 months to get the ten pounds of punch card 
> confetti out of  his car. 

As all Americans have known since late 2000, the proper name for that
"confetti" is "chad".  At least we can be thankful that once it is
mistakable for confetti it is no longer "hanging" chad...

John
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John W. Linville
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