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Re:Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) on Sunday May 03, 2015 @09:48PM (#9483913)
FORTRAN was my language of choice back then. Oh the memories. I'd still be using it if I stayed in the infrastructure industry.
Re:Library of Babel on Sunday May 03, 2015 @09:46PM (#9483910)
Is this actually valuable in some fashion to humanity? (not hating, serious question). It seems more efficient to store every book than to predict every book ever by holding GB's of nonsensical sequences. Or is this just a for fun thing?