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It didn't start with Java--it started well before that, with a set of cross-platform C++ toolkits that promised the same kind of promise: write your application in platform-standard C++ to our API, and we'll have the libraries on all the major platforms (back in those days, it was Windows, Mac OS, Solaris OpenView, OSF/Motif, and a few others) and it will just work. Even Microsoft got into this game briefly... For better or worse, the major players will not allow their systems to be commoditized that easily.
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English - doing fine thanks.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Osmosian R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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precisely. Me no understand!
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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Inside joke. Several years ago the lounge was infested by a troll who styled himself The Osmosian Order; who was constantly shilling a massive pile of WTFery he created called the Plain English Compiler. The rest of my comment was a Lovecraftian[^] reference.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I was going to reply with..
nuqjatlh? or
Heghlu'meH qaq jajvam.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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It's Klingon by the way
1. Huh?
2. Today is a good day to die.
Q. Hey man! have you sorted out the finite soup machine?
A. Why yes, it's celery or tomato.
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