Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 08-Jul-1999, I stupidly typed:
> > P.S.: The only response was from Ferguson,
> Who's this "Ferguson" dude? ;-)
I hoped that this would be obvious, it's
echo "Fergus Henderson" | sed 's/ .......//' => Ferguson
It even works well with other people's names:
echo "Simon Peyton-Jones" | sed 's/ .......//' => SimonJones
or
echo "Keith Wansbrough" | sed 's/ .......//' => Keithugh
It's a sophisticated form of name compression for low-bandwidth
connections, everybody on the Haskell mailing list can easily
reconstruct the original name. Patent pending...
"Everything counts in large amounts" (Depeche Mode)
:-)
Cheers,
Sven
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