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• Jocelyn Ireson-Paine commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  I suppose I should mention, for any Windows user who would like to experiment with Poplog, that there is an implementation. It runs on Vista, and XP (which I tried it on): I don't know about more recent versions. I used it to run the examples in "Poplog, continuations, Eliza, AI education, and Prolog". This includes, by the way, an explanation with examples of continuations. There's a link to Windows Poplog at the end. It would be great to see someone read this and donate enough money to fund a team to address the points Adrian mentions, bringing Poplog up...
• albertmpassy commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Umberto Eco got to this meme first: http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_mac_vs_pc.html...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkR628xGhToMVqCfpti5MB2wuIXCpv5dR0 commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Hypertalk = buddhism? easy, relaxed, friendly, boundless, not a religion, more a philosophy (why do the work the hardest way only because it's... harder? i remember when i was about 17/18, at school: a friend of mine was so pride to do everything with ms-dos, 386 pc, green monitors and streams of sweat, while i was already using graphic interfaces with "next", "back" and "home" buttons, and so on... and 25 years later, i'm using the very same language to build app for the iphone, while out there people's sweating on xcode :D )...
• paws4thot commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  That's how OSX was originally described; as being a Mac-style X environment layer over a Unix kernel. You're allowed 0 to 2 valid hyperlinks before your message will be automatically submitted to the moderation stack. Does that explain your "missing" submission?...
• phongn commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Because it is. It conforms to the UNIX 03 specification. It's a bit unusual (BSD userland running on top of a Mach microkernel) but since it conforms to specification what does it matter if it has different sort of kernel?...