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mehmetemre
12y ago
or the worst. As Larry Wall said: "The potential for greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil."[1] [1]: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html PS. I always wanted to quote this :-)
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12y ago
I use a bunch of anime characters when naming the machines. Source of my inspiration is: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1467
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mehmetemre
12y ago
I think adding hashtables to a high-level language in 10th release, 26 years after its inception, made him/her laugh. As a note: IIRC, SWI-Prolog got hash tables in their 7th release, so some fundamental data structure can be added t
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12y ago
> It was completely programmable with all source code. It was also not for 'playing' around - for that it was too expensive. As a software developer you could focus on your task and the whole operating system was supporting you
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13y ago
Chinese is an isolating language, so it doesn't have affixes, conjugation etc. so they can use that kind of writing system. In the other hand, English and lots of other languages (including my native language Turkish) are synthetic lan
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13y ago
I guess he's talking about Borland's Turbo Assembler that was coming with Turbo Pascal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Assembler