Dethe has found a very funny ... well, here's the relevant excerpt from the email he sent me:
...there's a wonderful paper on Postmodern Programming. The authors presented this at OOPSLA last month, and it was one of the highlights of the conference for me. My favorite part is when they define the essence of the PoMo programming language: Languages get defined by the problems they solve. The first exercise for many programmers is to compute the first thousand prime numbers. Here's their solution:
http://www.google.com/search?q=first%20thousand%20primes
I thought you'd enjoy that, seeing as how it combines PoMo, Google, and a wickedly funny smack on the head in one go.
My friend Paul English, when asked if he knows someone's phone number, has been known to reply: "Yes. It's 411."
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by D. Weinberger at December 23, 2002 12:05 PM