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  This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and Ada (see also bondage-and-discipline l summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of K&...
• However, on religious issures there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• oll v.,n. 1. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.
  urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flame...
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• cyberpunk /si:'ber-puhnk/ n.,adj. [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel "Neuromancer" (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's "True Names" (see the Bibliography in Appendix C) to John Brunner's 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider").
  Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naï...
• By the time of the Great Renaming, net.suicide, along with net.
  umors, was mainly populated by refugees from net.bizarre, which was the first popular group ever dropped by the backbone....
• Dear Emily: I'm still confused as to what groups articles should be posted to.
  How about an example? -- Still Confused Dear Still...
• I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use.
  Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make an album, so we made one, and it sounds like a group of people who have been given powerful but unfamiliar instruments as a therapy for a degenerative nerve disease....
• I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use.
  Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make an album, so we made one, and it sounds like a group of people who have been given powerful but unfamiliar instruments as a therapy for a degenerative nerve disease....