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Re: M O O N that spells moon
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: M O O N that spells moon |
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Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:51:42 +0100 |
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Facts for fans:
Lua is moon in Portuguese. Made in Brazil:
In 1993, the only real contender was Tcl, which had been
explicitly designed to be embedded into applications.
However, Tcl had unfamiliar syntax, did not offer good
support for data description, and ran only on Unix
platforms. We did not consider LISP or Scheme because of
their unfriendly syntax. Python was still in its infancy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)>
The subject phrase is from a Stephen King character, Tom
Cullen, "[h]is speech pattern includes a number of verbal
tics: repetition, the phrases " M-O-O-N spells (x) [...]"
<https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Cullen>
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