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In other words, it had nothing in common with today's Linux. (-:

50 programming languages of the last 50 years, illustrated in 50 minutes. It includes all the popular languages, but also covers some truly weird ones.

Here is FN's article on the original Incredibles movie. http://floobynooby.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-cinematography-o...

"I think the sort of work I do falls into an area of American fiction that, yes, that is accessible, but that is designed for people who really like to read and understand reading to be a discipline and to require a certain amount of work."

I can't even skim that sentence.

    intmain()
    {
        r etu rn0;
    }

Except that you've always got a footgun in each hand, with no safeties and no trigger guards.

Rust keeps its footguns locked in the gun safe. You get them out with the `unsafe` keyword.

For the most part, it's just another browser.

Pros: + I can disable Javascript per-site and reload the page in two clicks. I think that's possible with FFox or Chrome extensions, but it's built in to Brave.

+ UI looks cleaner.

Cons: - A few videos have refused to play. (Can't characterize that yet.)

- Reopening a closed tab only opens the last page on that tab, not the page history. I.e., the back button doesn't work.

- I don't know when, which or how publishers will get paid in BAT.

- I don't know how hard or expensive it will be to buy more BAT when my free ones are gone. Apparently I will have to open an account at a cryptocurrency exchange? Yuck!

I think the erasing behavior came from 2BSD. That's where I saw it first in Unix.

gcc 1.x and 2.x targeted several Unix platforms and produced working code some of the time. It would work with gas or the vendor's assembler and gld or the vendor's linker, depending on target. It almost always used the vendor's libc and other libraries.

GNU autotools didn't exist but every significant project had its own "configure && make && install" system that worked some of the time.

The vendors mostly ignored the project, though clueful engineers from vendors as well as customers were cheering it on.

I think it will not take Yosys/iCEstorm/SimbiFlow/whatever 20 years to take over the world this time around. At least I hope not.

The skill transferred to the bassoon and piano, though I don't play piano as well.

Years later, I picked up the sax again as an adult. This time, my emphasis was on jazz and improvisation. I still took lessons and played in bands occasionally. My drills were playing the same tune in all 12 keys and improvising on chord progressions in all 12 keys. The transposition came more or less easily -- less than a year of practice. When playing a drill around the circle of fifths (repeat a phrase in the keys of C, G, D, A, etc all the way around), I'd know what it should sound like and my fingers would find the notes. I wasn't always conscious of which key I was in.

When I improvised, sometimes I heard specific notes in my head and played them, and sometimes I thought about the chords/scales and let my fingers wander within those scales -- I didn't know what I was playing until I heard it. (I also didn't know about modes as much then.) I don't know that I was ever good at improvising, but I enjoyed it.