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\title{Scsh Reference Manual}
\subtitle{For scsh release 0.4}
% December 25, 1994
\author{Olin Shivers and Brian D.~Carlstrom}
\date{October 31, 1995}
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\chapter*{Acknowledgements}
Who should I thank?
My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back,
all the while becoming famous on {\em my\/} work?
My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to
be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews?
My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit ``fooling around with
computers,'' go to med school, and become a radiologist?
My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into
and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?
My God, no one could blame me---no one!---if I went off the edge and just
lost it completely one day.
I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels
I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals.
I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my
advisor meetings. A 10 oz.\ Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the
meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head
in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a
lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm
Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about
the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this,
I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible
moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly
what I think.
Oh, yes, the {\em acknowledgements.}
I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.
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Olin Shivers \\
Cambridge \\
September 4, 1994
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