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Comment: Re:Possible options for Amiga (Score 1) 258

by hesiod (#37821900) Attached to: Hyperion Promises An AmigaOS Netbook

The thing I heard is that Amiga's scripting language REXX was awesome

On the Amiga it was ARexx, but yeah it was pretty sweet. It could interface live with just about any program that was open (plus launch any it needed) and operate them without your intervention, so it had similar power to Linux's shell scripts, but had the potential to be somewhat graphical and it was far easier to learn than figuring out the complicated command-line syntax of every program under the sun.

Comment: Re:NOT the 99% (Score 1) 1799

by hesiod (#37669864) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests?

Given that around half the people that ever lived are alive now

To reiterate the GP, a sense of scale would be useful, but your senses are apparently WAAAAAAYYYY OFF. Probably well over 100 billion people have ever lived, and that's estimated from 50k years -- just half of your timeframe. That would mean less than 7% of the history of human population is alive now, not 50% (nor the more asinine and more common 75% quote).

The goys have proven the following theorem... -- Physicist John von Neumann, at the start of a classroom lecture.

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