From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020326141606.00991f08@pop3.clear.net.nz> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Subject: Re: [9fans] Linus on design, Plan9 etc In-Reply-To: <20020326002821.51048199E8@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:16:06 +1200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6de069ac-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >there's a pleasant programme on BBC Radio Four (it used to be Radio 4 >but they've apparently had designers in) When I was a lad, it was called the Home Service. I hope the designers haven't done away with "The Archers" - it's so comforting to visit England after a gap of a couple of years and tune in to find that absolutely nothing has happened. But I digress. Time was when it would have seemed eccentric to refer to Algol 68 as a "little language", but that was before the C++ standard.