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Postings from February 2007
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:28:15PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:21:15PM +0000, Tels wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 18:47:08 Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:34:14PM +0000, Tels wrote: > > > > Wow, I will put these into my .sigfile right next to the Duke Nukem > > > > Forever quotes. > > > > > > Are there quotes on Arc? Xanadu has now been released. But it had a bit > > > of a headstart. > > > > Sorry but I have no idea what Arc and Xanadu are. I remember reading a very > > interesting story about some software called "xanadu", but the details are > > already getting lost in my mind. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu > > http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html > > There was something else long due that Jurgen mentioned at the German Perl > Workshop, but I forget what it was. * (192 years) The Chunnel. First proposed in 1802. Attempts made since the 1870's. Finally completed in 1994. [1] * (134 years) Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (dictionairy of the Dutch language). First volume published in 1864. Last volume in 1998. [2] * (125+ years) La Sagrada Familia: under construction since 1882. [3] * (87+ years) The Second Avenue Subway: proposed and worked on since 1920. [4] * (24+ years) The Hurd. First mentioned in the GNU Manifesto of 1983. Work started in 1990. Latest release: 0.2. [5] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunnel [2] http://www.inl.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=222&Itemid=244 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia [4] http://www.nycsubway.org/lines/2ndave.html [5] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/history.html Abigail