At 03:41 PM 2/23/2002 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: wimp andy

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:21:44 PST, Andy Piper <andyp(a)bea.com&gt; said: Really. There's not even a reference to nasty dragons in the XEmacs source tree [~/src/xemacs-21.5]2 find . | xargs grep -i dragon ./src/lisp.h:#define GOOD_HASH 65599 /* prime number just over 2^16; Dragon book, p. 435 */ ./src/nt.c:/* Modified version of "PJW" algorithm (see the "Dragon" compiler book). */ Now over in the XFree86 source tree, down in xc/programs/xterm, we find: /* * $Xorg: Tekproc.c,v 1.5 2001/02/09 02:06:02 xorgcvs Exp $ * * Warning, there be crufty dragons here. */ and this in main.c: /* * W A R N I N G * * If you think you know what all of this code is doing, you are * probably very mistaken. There be serious and nasty dragons here. * I'm still not sure which is worse, a nasty dragon or a crufty one....