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In article <5h4v6g$kc7$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au
(Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:

> I note that Lucent's Inferno system is programmed in a language called Limbo.

> But basically, Limbo is astonishingly like what you'd get if a crazed
> C programmer read a couple of books about CSP and Lisp implementation,
> understood _some_ of what he was missing, and went for it.

For some reason, Lucent has done something like 'watermarking' to their
pdf documentation that you download.  This 'watermarking' has several
effects:

* it blows the pdf files up by a factor of >10X
* it slows down your download times by a similar factor
* it slows down your print times by a similar factor
* it looks ugly as heck when you print it

A few complaints to Lucent about this paranoia should be in order.
Does Lucent seriously believe that someone will try to 'hack' the Inferno
documentation?

My guess is that the irritation that this stuff causes people when they
try to find out about the language will turn them off before they even
get far enough to read the documentation.

To give you a flavor of what I am talking about, a 12-page document may
take 3 Mbytes of pdf, with _no_ pictures!
