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> Could that be the sound of a great number of bubbles being burst ?

Quite the contrary,

Frankly, it doesn't matter where Wirt's vast source of knowledge comes from.
(Be it from within or from a machine stored source).  As far as I'm concerned,
he displays the two most redeeming characteristics of a well educated man:
1.  Sharing knowledge of a FACTUAL nature, and
2.  Presenting it in such a manner that the masses can actually understand
    it!  (Well usually, anyway! :))

If I had more professors like Wirt when I attended college years ago, I would
probably hold those people in much higher regard than I currently do.  My
experience was that the majority of them violated both rules 1 and 2 with
reckless abandon!!

John (Still a Wirt fan) Hornberger
Sr. Systems Programmer
General Signal Services
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P.S.  The opinions expressed above are mine alone since no one else
      would want them!!