<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Glad the joke landed for you!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 16, 2021, at 1:14 PM, Hernan Wilkinson <<a href="mailto:hernan.wilkinson@gmail.com" class="">hernan.wilkinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">no no, I understood the joke! In fact I answered with three :laugh: emoji!! But I see that it got translated to ??? ...<div class="">So here is a screenshot of my answer, I hope this time gets fine :-) </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span id="cid:ii_kw2lek8v0"><image.png></span><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:51 PM David Ungar <<a href="mailto:ungar@mac.com" class="">ungar@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thank you so much, Jecel, for – as always —understanding so well and explaining so well.<br class="">
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- David<br class="">
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> On Nov 16, 2021, at 12:26 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <<a href="mailto:jecel@merlintec.com" target="_blank" class="">jecel@merlintec.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Hernan Wilkinson wrote on Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:04:06 -0300<br class="">
>> <br class="">
>> ???<br class="">
>> <br class="">
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 3:21 PM David Ungar wrote:<br class="">
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>> I followed the link <a href="http://objective.st/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://objective.st/</a> and read: "Objective-S<br class="">
>> is the first general purpose programming language." Were<br class="">
>> the others chopped liver?<br class="">
> <br class="">
> Hernan's question isn't very clear, but supposing he is confused by the<br class="">
> "chopped liver" comment that is a humorous expression of indignation<br class="">
> when someone else seems to have forgotten them or their contributions.<br class="">
> <br class="">
> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopped_liver" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopped_liver</a><br class="">
> <br class="">
> My guess is that there is something missing in "first general purpose<br class="">
> programming language" which would narrow it down. For example, you could<br class="">
> call APL "the first general purpose array based programming language".<br class="">
> <br class="">
> -- Jecel<br class="">
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