Re: [Lingo] Re: Archives should now handle 日本語、English, и Бьлгарски / Русский

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

On 02/07/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On 02/07/07, steven smith <sjs@example.com> wrote:
>
> > A few years back I saw Damian Conway give a presentation in
> > which he had a program written in Klingon using the Linga
> > Perl Module.
>
> Damian Conway[1] is a computing demi-god; he does not make the first
> team with the likes of Knuth[2], Chomsky[3], and Admiral Grace
> Hopper[4], but he can come off the bench to pinch hit and absolutely
> slam one out of the park:

Damian and I were colleagues for many years. We fled from academia around
the same time. He effectively was bought out of his day job by the Perl
community. [*]

[* Me, I was old enough to live on my pension (in many jobs in Oz
you can retire once you reach 55, with your pension being a function of
how much has been paid into the system and your life expectency.)]

Jim
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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/