From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Re {TUHS} Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:39:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150926163934.GB17745@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1509262200330.46878@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
> Dang it; you're making me learn a new language!
I read the paper when it was last mentioned on the list, and it's indeed
impressive: more like awk than perl, except in a few particulars.
> Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Someone asked me once how I dared to use the .sig below. I replied
that I come from New Jersey, where the very hero sandwiches in kids'
school lunches are made from shoggoth meat, and I now live in NYC,
where the banks foreclosed on sunken R'lyeh. They're probably going
for a controlling interest in blue-litten K'nyan, red-litten Yoth, and
Black N'kai even now. Gotta diversify in these degenerate days, y'know.
(About the name: Abdul al-Hazred is an ill-formed expression in Arabic,
having two definite articles in a row. Correcting it to Abdullah
al-Hazred, which inserts the Divine Name between the articles, gives
the reasonable Arabic name -- or more likely, alias -- "servant of God
the Forbidden". IRL it's an exoticized version of Hazard, the surname
of some of Lovecraft's ancestors.)
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
La mayyitan ma qadirun yatabaqqa sarmadi
Fa idha yaji' al-shudhdhadh fa-l-maut qad yantahi.
--Abdullah al-Hazred, Al-`Azif
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-26 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-21 14:02 Doug McIlroy
2015-09-25 17:08 ` Dan Cross
2015-09-25 22:05 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-25 23:16 ` Clem Cole
2015-09-25 23:23 ` Larry McVoy
2015-09-26 12:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-26 16:39 ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-09-27 7:19 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
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