we`ve observed some rudeness in your latest activity ... If this is a simple misunderstanding, no harm done... We have temporarily suspended your account; you may return after 7 days Wow. The meta logic is remarkable. It looks like I crossed the wrong power-tripping people there. =============== I`m mentioned in RFC 57 (probably before you were born) and served on the C standards committee, X3J11 ... I was the first person in the world to vote to accept the C standard (due to voting in alphabetical order) ... sometimes I regret it. Machines I`ve programmed on, that I remember: IBM 1620 IBM 360/{75,91,20} 370 SDS (XDS) Sigma 7 Varian 620-f PDP-11/{40,45,70,20} VAX-7[58]0 Amiga [123]000 Various PC`s Operating systems: OS/360 SEX (Sigma 7 Executive) Varian DOS RSX-11[DM], RT-11 UNIX 6, 7, PWB, System III, System V AmigaDos Linux Windows 95, 98, NT, 7, 8, 10 Programming languages: FORTRAN II, IV Assembler for all the machines listed above PL/I APL Snobol 3, 4 Meta 5 Algol, Burroughs Algol, Algol 68 PL/360 MUMPS RPG FORTH Pascal Oberon IPL-V, LISP MIX Draco C, C++, C# Shell scripting, SED, AWK REXX Perl 4, 5 Java D Scala Nim[rod] dabbling in numerous others I`ve done lots of other things too. ©