From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-04-04T11:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: PHP in rubyforge?

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:59:20AM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >I struggled through two years of Russian in college because someone 
> >had told me that the Russians were ahead of the USA in math and 
> >computer science. Hell, it turned out that they were still using 
> >vacuum tubes and the only thing they knew how to do better than we did 
> >was probability theory. I should have learned French instead -- or 
> >Japanese.
> P.S.: If you're near a decent university library, look up a book on a 
> supposedly "earth-shaking" programming language the Russians invented 
> called Lyapas. If it's possible to have a language more bizarre than 
> Unlambda or Intercal or Malbolge ... this one is it. But computer 
> scientists told us it was wonderful for some reason. Go figure.

Um . . . okay, I'll look that up later tonight.  Sounds like it should
at least be worth a few moments' amusement to read about it, though I'm
pretty sure I won't want to learn it any time soon, based on that
description.


> 
> P.P.S: I actually tried to create a language that looks a *lot* like 
> Unlambda in the 1970s. I really thought it was useful, not some bizarre 
> computer scientist's way of making unreadable code. I wonder what would 
> have happened if I had tried to publish it?

You'd probably have your own mailing list, and people would be calling
you by some kind of cute four-letter term of endearment that ends with
Z.  Well, okay, maybe not, but it's fun to dream.

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"There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary
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