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Re:A Farewell to FRP by taneq on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:33PM (#11671816)
"This will be the sixth time we have reinvented basic programming, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."
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Re:A Farewell to FRP by Gaelan on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @08:53PM (#11671899)
What is that a reference to?
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Re:A Farewell to FRP by taneq on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:05PM (#11671941)
The Architect's big speech in The Matrix Reloaded, where he's talking about the machines tearing down and restarting the Matrix. "But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it." It was from memory and so a bit munged, though.
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