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| | | (...) I don't care if MS is a money-grubbing empire as long as they make great products. The problem I have with it is that they're only making good (not great) products and that, in combination with their monopolistic nature, hurts the other guys (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: Perl rules! —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | (...) Yah, no argument there. I prefer the Windows 4 GUI over almost anything else (1), and I can run a wide range of apps on my NT box. But, I know the difference between reliability and popularity, and for mission-critical apps where down time (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | The Continuing Desecration of Perl, or, www.perl.com (Was: Perl rules!) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | AAAAAAAAGH! Has anyone seen what they've done to www.perl.com today!?!?!? They've dumbed it down! It's absolutely *LOADED* with O'Reilly logos and ads! Perl is the tree, and the dog pack of O'Reilly and Associates just pissed on it! I'm more afraid (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Xerox GUI ideas vs. Apple GUI ideas (Was: Perl rules!) —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | (...) I finally got around to remembering to report on this. Of all places, I saw this theory posed in (my autographed copy of :-) the book _Just Java_, 4th Edition by Peter van der Linden, on page 341 (light relief after chapter 13 on Applets). To (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Xerox GUI ideas vs. Apple GUI ideas (Was: Perl rules!) —Paul Mison
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| | | | | | (...) You can say many things about Wired [1], but at least they have an online archive. The above is available at: -> (URL) Cheers, (...) :: paul [1] such as it's gone from being an essential geek read to far too business orientated and obsessed (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Xerox GUI ideas vs. Apple GUI ideas (Was: Perl rules!) —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | (...) searching. Now if only the Communications of the ACM were freely available online...! Anyone know what the heck "Interactions 1.3" is? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Godiva Ice Cream (Was: Perl rules!) —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | (...) This I need to hear more about. Is it available in the grocery store, or do I need to visit a Godiva-only store? (...) Yah. I think he was shingling his roof. Loudly. At 1:30 AM. And from the sound of his voice, he seemed more than a little (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Godiva Ice Cream (Was: Perl rules!) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I just stumbled across it in the regular local grocery store. I was trying to find where they'd moved the Ben & Jerry's to, and -- pow -- there it was, staring at me, begging to be bought! I think there were 2 or 3 flavors (all (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | special boxes was Re: Godiva Ice Cream (Was: Perl rules!) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | Don't forget to mail me, Todd, with Jambalaya synchronization details!!! (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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