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Cringing for Bobbo
Robert X Cringely, once best known here as the writer of a very sharp and witty history of the PC, these days seems determined to recast himself as a presenter of increasingly dull Channel 4 television programmes. Verity Stob respectfully asks him to reconsider this career move. - Design
Wherever He Goes
"Anders Hejlsberg could go anywhere, work on anything" claimed a recent Microsoft banner ad boldly. Anywhere? Verity Stob contemplates how his job application might be received. - .NET
The Way We Were
Kids today. They just don't appreciate a good phosphor green terminal.
SQL-based Office Politics
Letters
A Brief History of Datetime
A Brief History of Datetime. By a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian. N. B. There will be very many Dates in this History.
ForgeAhead
Borland Revelations
Verity comes down from the mount to deliver to us the news from Borcon, chapter and verse.
A Slice of Tongue
"In 50 years, perhaps much less, the ability to read and write [computer] code will be as essential for professionals of every stripe as the ability to read and write a human language is today," claimed Dylan "inspiration for The Matrix" Evans in The Guardian. Oh yeah? - Parallel
Divided by a Common Language
"I have come to view C++ as a federation of several different languages: C, OO C++, STL, [and] TMP," wrote Scott Meyers on the comp.lang.c++.moderated newsgroup. Quite so, and the species of programmer that live in the federation are quite varied, too, claims Verity Stob. - .NET
