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Monthly Archive April, 2006

Only in America…

4 Apr 2006

Grady Booch (no permalink) quotes Dick Gabriel as pointing out:

I got this from a colleague: “As you may have noted, on Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. Unless you are very young, or live a very long time, this is probably […]

Grumpy Old Man

On returning from functions

2 Apr 2006

Ivan writes about his reaction to Pragmatic Dave’s comments at SPA 2006 on GOTO considered harmful as a Cargo Cult.

I have two conflicting examples.

First:

As a misspent youth, I worked on Stratus minis in PL1, a nice environment in its day that, I believe, had roots going back to Multics. Our convention was to start and […]

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