nemesis wrote:
> It's the Unabomber, right?

Yeah.

>  A lone guy all alone fighting the tech world?  sounds kinda fitting... :P

Ah, I get it now. Very droll.

>> or with Smalltalk (assuming that's peewee herman or something?)  The 
>> others were quite amusing.
> 
> yeah, I don't get that either.  

If it's Bill Nye, then I guess the idea was Smalltalk was a big research 
project from PARC, so a scientific experiment in that sense?

> I liked the borg for Clojure (CL'ers are 
> in deep hate for it right now) 

Yep. Assimilation rules!

> and Doc Brown the stereotypical mad scientist for Haskell. :D

With the added fun of lazy evaluation and pure functional languages standign 
in for time travel.

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Captain Jack wrote:
> (Coursewriter, anyone? No? 

Yes!  Actually, I got hired over the summer one year to try to duplicate the 
functionality of an early version of that.

> http://vbonnaire.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/glinda.jpg
> http://gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_12_munchkin2.jpg
> http://www.adorablekidsdressup.com/Cloud%20Nine%20Images/Learning_Toys/Laptop.jpg

Yes, that would do. :-)

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nemesis wrote:
> hey, that's erlang already!

It's not that erlang is munchkins, but the lollipop guild in particular. 
I.e., the chorus-line of munchkins.

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Le 20/01/2010 18:59, Warp nous fit lire :
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> http://kvardek-du.kerno.org/2010/01/how-common-lisp-programmer-views-users.html
> 
>   Reminds me of
> http://www.netstorming.com.ar/soft/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/YRoqC.jpg
> 
>   (It's a pitty I can't find the full resolution version of that image.
> It's much clearer.)
> 
http://www.tijuana.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/windows-mac-linux.jpg
or
http://www.hiti.fr/dessins/ordinateurs.jpg

Both a bit different (caption in french), but bigger

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"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
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>
> hey, that's erlang already!

Ah yes... Should have looked more closely. :-)

For some reason, I have trouble getting my head around Erlang. I use Wings 
3D a lot, and I've got a wishlist of about 20 or so features for it. From 
time to time, I think, "Well, just get the source code and write 'em!" Then, 
I get the language specs, look at the code, and my brain says, "No, go do 
something else. I'm not doing this right now." Ah well... someday, perhaps.

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Captain Jack wrote:
>> (Coursewriter, anyone? No?
>
> Yes!  Actually, I got hired over the summer one year to try to duplicate 
> the functionality of an early version of that.
>

That was actually my first programming experience, in high school. We had a 
terminal in our school (as did four other schools) hooked to an IBM 
something or other at the school admin office downtown. If you had your math 
homework done in time, you could get on the computer and run a program (the 
Baccarat game was popular). I was the sort of geek who always worked ahead, 
so I got on the computer a lot. One day, I complained that the game was 
"stupid" and "broke" (I was also a very obnoxious kid; I'm sure I've 
outgrown that...). The teacher went to the filing cabinet, dropped the 
Coursewriter manuals onto the desk in front of me, and said, "So... fix it." 
That was in about 1976, and I don't think I've gone a day without coding 
something or other since. :-D

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               |
You --->   <--+

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>> What the hell is a jigawhatt/endofunctor.
> 
> It's a measure of time travelling through monads.

Monads may let you borrow the future, but you MUST NOT come face to face 
with your future self. Why, it could cause a temporal paradox that could 
UNRAVEL THE VERY FABRIC OF THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM!

Alternatively, maybe the damage would be limited to only locking up one 
CPU core until somebody sends a SIGKILL...

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Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> http://www.tijuana.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/windows-mac-linux.jpg

  That has been clearly changed to French. I wonder where the original one
at that full resolution is.

  But the full resolution version does convey the idea better.

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On 20-1-2010 17:23, nemesis wrote:
> may I have a funny interlude between another set of bashing?

sure

> http://kvardek-du.kerno.org/2010/01/how-common-lisp-programmer-views-users.html 

but this isn't it. At least I did not find it even remotely funny or 
interesting.

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