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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 21:44:04 +0000

ok, i'm totally in love with erin mckean. a great presenter on an interesting topic

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:17:15 +0000

a useful reference as i forget how to spell completely

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:09:08 +0000

from a php disucssion at work: "If you're willing to continually do the heavy lifting of ensuring that your version of Smalltalk96 on Rails stays concurrent with the latest patches". omg, how awesome would that be?

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:25:18 +0000

a paper about intercal. very nice

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:43:47 +0000

this might be the best page on wikipedia - a List of British English words not used in American English

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Mon, 30 May 2005 04:48:13 +0000

the ICFP programming contest seems fun - i wonder if anyone's planning on implementing in brainfuck. or smith. or maybe homespring :)

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:32:13 +0000

phil doesn't believe ruby on rails exists: "Personally I prefer Cobra with the Spoke and Hairnet modules compiled in. But I've heard Gerbera on Soufl� is even more powerful, particularly if you already have a load of Buckingham code"lying around.

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:10:14 +0000

london.pm has been going off topic alot lately (no suprise there), and has been talking about evolution of (non-computer) languages. "The biggest change in French spelling since the XVIth century occured during the Revolution -- the endings of the imperfect tense ("j'aimois" became "j'aimais") -- and it didn't come from the Acad�mie.", states rafael garcia-suarez.

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:00:59 +0000

pointed out on p6l - xquery uses smilie faces for it's comment delimiters. the current suggestion is that p6 should do the same. even if it doesn't, one could write the grammar for it easily.

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nobody@domain.com (Cal Henderson) — Thu, 27 May 2004 04:10:12 +0000

a periodic table of the perl 6 operators. sterling (if scary) work. it would be interesting to do the same for perl 5 and compare. uri said: "are you going to predict any new operators based on missing boxes as mendeleev did?". maybe this is the way to organically design feature sets ;)