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Re: Why is it called "ice-9"?
- To: karlheg at bittersweet dot inetarena dot com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
- Subject: Re: Why is it called "ice-9"?
- From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: 15 May 2000 11:27:29 +0300
- Cc: GNU Guile Scheme <guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: who? me?
- References: <87wvkwi6f2.fsf@bittersweet.intra>
karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> What's the origin of the name "ice-9"?
Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle".
now, *why* it's used in Guile the way it's used I don't know.
plus, Godot is supposed to make it obsolete, ones he comes.
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