mxyzpt1k

My kids and I played Warcraft 3 together quite a bit. It came with an editor that let you create custom maps, including the creeps. From about the age of 10 my oldest loved making worlds for the rest of the family to explore. It was enough of a hook that he eventually wanted more than the map editor could offer.

Thank you. Redis has been the nervous system of my main project for the last eight years.

Perl incorporated regular expressions into a general purpose programming language in a way that seemed fairly unique at the time. Today they seem to be everywhere, often with the help of PCRE-Perl compatible regexps.

alias gerp=grep

For just that reason

I have a copy for home, one for work, and one to lend. "On Lisp" by the same author is a wonderful glimpse into the power of macros.

From the very end of the article...

In the meantime, the Paris-based International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will keep track of the gradual slowing of the planet, caused in part by drag created by the Moon. Millions of years ago days were 22 hours long.

There's a chapter about Sierra On-Line in "Hackers" by Steven Levy -- a fascinating book.