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Sadly, this will be a completely useless post, but I was hoping it was talking about the old Unix mail client. I believe it was the inspiration for PINE.

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Elm the mail reader is quite old and obsolete. It makes sense to garbage collect our namespaces every once in a while so names can be used anew.

I have some nostalgia for PINE, being a UW alum. Perhaps I will call my next reactive programming language Pine (well...maybe not).

Pining for PINE?

The idea of generational namespacing is pretty inspiring.

I, for one, still use pine (well, alpine) for all my email.

Nostalgia? I use it daily. I believe it's what Torvalds use, too. Not everyone has migrated to Mutt (or Gnus) yet.

Not useless, it was the first thing that I thought of as well. It took about 2-3 months of Go postings before I realized that HN was singularly uninterested in 2500+ year old incredibly complex Chinese board games.

Well, HN seems to be interested in chess, so this assumption wasn't THAT absurd :D

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