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Who Made That Escape Key?[^]
"Why "escape"? Bemer could have used another word - say, "interrupt" - but he opted for "ESC," a tiny monument to his own angst. Bemer was a worrier."
/ravi
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Quote: “There’s something nice about having a get-me-the-hell-out-of-here key.”
Agreed
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Brings back memories of TECO - Text Editor and COrrector. A single ESC meant to exit text insertion mode and return to command mode. Hitting the ESC key twice in a row signaled TECO to execute the command you just typed.
TECO was a very powerful and dangerous editor. Powerful because almost every key on the keyboard was a valid command. Dangerous because it was a pure interpreter that only stopped executing commands when it either encountered an error or completed executing all the commands, combined with almost every key being a valid command, a minor typo could, and often did, make a huge mess of whatever you were editing.
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I remember TECO! Never used it, though. Used SOS for a while then switched to EDT, and later LSE. IIRC, TECO and Emacs had a lot in common. They were both so powerful, it was rumored you could use either editor to fry an egg. 
/ravi
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Ravi,
TECO was implemented on almost all the DEC operating systems. I liked it because it didn't matter whether I was using RSTS, RSX, RT11, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, or VMS, it was still pretty much the same editor. You must have encountered it on VMS. I believe there was even an implementation for Windows.
Yes, TECO and EMACS are similar in philosophy.
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Yes, I saw it in the early days of VMS (2.0).
/ravi
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I dunno, my experience has been the use of the Esc keycode to start a series of device command characters, you know, Esc Sequences? Something that is considered FM (not frequency modulation, F**king Magic) nowadays.
Many have been the times my employers have snagged me to create them because they had no idea what they were or how to use them.
Before WYSIWYG, if you wanted bold or italics, you had to embed esc sequences in the character streams to the printers. Or to generate barcode, or have a printer connected to a terminal and you wanted something printed instead of displayed on the terminal.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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BrainiacV wrote: I dunno, my experience has been the use of the Esc keycode to start a series of device command characters
I think we're both old as dirt. 
I did a lot of hacking using ESC codes on the VT100, VT102 and VT50 (graphics terminal). I still remember ESC[K (erase to end of line) and ESC[2J (erase entire line without moving cursor), ESC[H (move cursor to start of line, and other equally (now) useless information.
/ravi
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As my grandchildren say, "No confession, no case."
No, wait..
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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If the astronauts in “2001: A Space Odyssey” had an ESC key, Dennerlein points out, they could have stopped the rogue computer Hal in an instant.
A nice reminder that robots must have an Esc button also.
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Sometimes Visual Studio will show an assembly reference path incorrectly when inspecting the properties. Example: the reference path might show /projecta/bin when in actual fact the path is ../packages/something. Also if Visual Studio is unable to find an assembly reference it will display the path as "". Accurate References will parse the Solution and its Project to show you the actual assembly path. All your references are belong to... you!
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Not "Service References"!
(Feeling smart)
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Basically, Doppio is a project to get Java running in the browser without plugins. It includes an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (VM), as well as an in browser compiler and bytecode disassembler. It is still a work in progress and performance obviously needs improvement before it is ready to be used in production. JVM in the browser could be used to run a multitude of languages and existing programs.
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ReadEvalPrintλove.org is a site devoted to Lisp advocacy. Herein you will find curated information, links, tutorials, videos, images and other sundreys related to various Lisp implementations. Lisp fans, this site is just for you.
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Proton is a declarative multitouch framework that allows developers to specify gestures as regular expressions of touch event symbols. Proton converts the touch events outputted by multitouch hardware into a stream of touch event symbols that encode the touch action (down, move, and up), touch ID (e.g., first touch, second touch, etc.) and custom touch attributes (e.g., touch hit-target, touch direction, etc.). Developers describe multitouch gestures as regular expressions of these symbols, which Proton matches against the touch event stream. I know, I'll use regular expressions... Now you have five-fingered problems.
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For the past several weeks I’ve been focusing my efforts on learning how to approach software architecture. Despite my experience in developing several applications, I wanted to read and learn more about this to do a better job in the future, for our upcoming project. My goal was to extract relevant pieces of knowledge with the final goal of producing one sheet of paper with the most important points. I wanted to stick it onto the wall behind my screen, so that I could refer to it with only a glance. It had to have the most important questions that I should ask myself before committing to anything important during software design. Download the cheat sheet and stick it on the wall over your desk.
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I don't see how to download it. Please advise. Thanks. Apologize in advance for my ignorance; i.e., I just signed up on this forum.
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The problem of online fraud, fake reviews and sock puppetry is only going to get worse, according to recent research. But there are ways to identify likely perpetrators and that’s what Sift Science aims to do. The 8-person San Francisco startup uses machine learning to analyze user interaction with web sites and create a digital profile of who will likely perpetrate online fraud. Hello, my name Scammer1138.
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"Anyone who tries to persuade me on anything is a scammer!"
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Work on HTTP/2.0 will start by creating draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-00, based upon draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00. That draft will list Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon as authors, to acknowledge their contribution. However, we will have a separate editorial team in charge of the Working Group's drafts. After extensive discussions and consultation with our AD, I've asked Julian Reschke, Alexey Melnikov and Martin Thomson to serve as editors of the HTTP/2.0 draft. I thought we already did Web 2.0...
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It's like watching glaciers race.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You just described my commute home.
/ravi
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