The best I've seen in weeks....
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages[^]. My favourite: 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages[^]. My favourite: 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
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The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. Build times suffer.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. - Charlie Brooker My Photos/CP Flickr Group - ScrewTurn Wiki
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages[^]. My favourite: 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
The progress from 1996 to 2001 is very impressive. :-D
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages[^]. My favourite: 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
"1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix" :-D
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages[^]. My favourite: 1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
Of all forms of sexual aberration, the most unnatural is abstinence.
"1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :doh:
This signature was proudly tested on animals.
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"1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix" :-D
Ken Thompson designed it, Dennis Ritchie built it, and together they talked Brian Kernighan into trying it out. :-D
