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With No Definite Future And No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow ...[The Mermen, A Glorious Lethal Euphoria]

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL. How to succeed in language without really trying. Be lucky. [Lambda the Ultimate] The link is to a transcript of a talk by Dennis Ritchie on the relationship between C and four of its contemporaries - Bliss, Pascal, Algol 68, and BCPL. 2:06:29 PM    comment []

Last Rites For Napster. Napster -- the embattled file-trading company you love to hate -- is just about dead. In a furious day of activity, the company CEO quit and employees were given two unappealing options. By Brad King. [Wired News] Several years ago - somewhere near the height of Napster's popularity - I was over at Dan Wooldridge's house and we were listening to "Shoe-in" by the Secret Stars. I remarked that Ida did a nice cover of the song. Dan hadn't heard it, so he opened the Napster client, entered "ida" and "shoe-in" as search parameters and immediately found four or five locations where he could download Ida's version. It didn't take more than 30 seconds. 8:24:34 AM    comment []