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in reply to Loss of a Legend

I knew I was in the right field when I found that the index entry for "recursion" in _The_C_Programming_Language_ included the page number for the index entry for recursion.

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Re^2: Loss of a Legend
by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 21, 2011 at 15:24 UTC

    That's a rather common joke. Something like "infinite loop: see loop, infinite .... loop, infinite: see infinite loop" :-)

    Jenda
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Re^2: Loss of a Legend
by muba (Priest) on Oct 17, 2011 at 00:06 UTC

    It took me a while to fully grasp what you just said there. But yeah, that's humour with style.