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Old 26th July 2013
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1- Most innovative programmer of the last century ?
John McCarthy (or his graduate student?)

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2- Most enjoyable piece of software you happen to be using ?
acme. Historically, Bard's Tale II.

And to be fair, I'm using emacs to write this and it's not unenjoyable. I suppose I could hook acme up to It's All Text. It's just when I attempt a 2nd instance it says, "9pserve: announce unix!/tmp/ns.username.:0/acme: Address already in use
acme: can't post service: 9pserve failed"

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3- Most important political figure of the new century ?
No one's yet appeared of any great prominence. Let's hope this trend continues.


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4- Most interesting website ?
archive.org


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5- Most convincing (or persuading ! ) OS you ever used :
OpenBSD. I hope to be persuaded by plan 9 someday if I can ever figure out how to get it running on my hardware and can learn to live without certain software. Having fun with plan9port.


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6- Most convincing programming language -as to your personal needs- ?
C++ - expressive, general purpose, performant, and able to do what C can for system code.

Though realistically for my personal needs so far probably anything would cut it. I'm not writing simulations, compilers or operating systems here. I'd say Perl but I think if I learned them better I might prefer Common Lisp or Scheme. If I learned further, then something along the lines of ML (maybe ocaml) might be best, but I don't know yet having only begun to learn ML and having put it aside when the latest Stroustrup book came out.

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7- Most detrimental human behavior ?
Violence backed by technology, particularly nuclear weapons.
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