From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:39:34 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Re {TUHS} Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix In-Reply-To: References: <201509211402.t8LE2E4K016401@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20150925232349.GA19979@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20150926163934.GB17745@mercury.ccil.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