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From: "Barry A. Warsaw" <bwarsaw@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
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Subject: Re: XEmacs 20.3-beta4 ("Warsaw") is released
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>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

    sb> This beta is code named `Warsaw' due to Barry's contention
    sb> that even numbered XEmacs releases are cursed. ;-)

And when I saw the subject header, I thought, wow!  Steve's integrated
CC Mode 5 and now people will *really* know who to blame :-) But then
I thought, no maybe he's going the route of Gnus and assigning cool
names for the releases, based on a world capitals, and in honor of
pending NATO expansion, picked my ancestral home city as the first
selection (completely coincidentally).

But then I read the above and I was confused!  Is 20.3-beta4 really
even?  Or odd?  Hmm, there's two even numbers and one odd number which
means that the evens overrule the odds.  But then there is an odd
number of numbers (and words!) so maybe it really *is* odd after all.
But there's more: int(20.3 * 4) == 81, the 4th root of which is 3.
Steve of course knows that prime releases are even better than odd
releases, so maybe this one's okay after all (is it another
coincidence that the current CC Mode release is 5.09?).

Hmm, I'm sure there are more numerical conspiracies bound tightly in
the convergence of this release.  Where are the Templars when you
really need them?

But then again, maybe Steve is just trying to prod me to download this
version, and none of the rest of you really exist.

:-)

-Barry the Parry-noid

