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Month: July, 2008

A language both elegant and terrifying

9 July, 2008 (17:50) | Random Thoughts | By: radiantmatrix

It’s as if H.P. Lovecraft, returned from the dead and speaking by seance to Larry Wall, designed a language both elegant and terrifying for his Elder Things to write programs in… — Matt Olson, asr

And people wonder why I love Perl. ;-)

I can’t tell if he’s joking…

2 July, 2008 (13:30) | Random Thoughts | By: radiantmatrix

In response to Buy n Large to Brand Direction “North”, John Gruber writes:

What’s next, the Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment? Jiminy.– DaringFireball

I can’t tell if he knows that “Buy n Large” is the pretend company from Wall-E or not. Were you kidding, John, or did you really think someone was trying to brand a compass direction?