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'So that's how I came to be mysteriously orphaned and, on my ninth birthday, just three years ago today, sent to work as a junior grader at the Ah-Poo! Toilet Tissue reclamation factory at Fort Wirth', explained Jo, our heroine, a feisty, scruffy and independently-minded young tomboy whose more mature, more feminine side we won' …

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  1. E

    Heheheh!

    Good yarn Verity.

    But!

    Does Jo use vi or emacs?

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  2. David Tonhofer Silver badge
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    So say we all.

    ...the "sweary recluse" is really the dog's bollocks. I want to see that kind of stuff in IEEE Software!!

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  3. John Gamble

    Now About That Macro Language

    Excellent as always, but this is really bothering me now. What is "... That C-like macro language that programmer's editors support but which nobody much uses."

    Obviously I don't much use it.

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  4. James Anderson
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    Blaspehmy.

    Oh dear!

    Verity has used Lisp in a humerous context.

    The wrath of Stallman will descend upon her. Never will she be allowed to use a "(" again.

    She will be cast out from by hosts of the one true language for they cannot laugh nor even smile.

    Stallman have pity on her.

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  5. Dave

    Does that mean...

    the title of the third book becomes 'The Amber pyGlass'.

    Coat.

    Pipe.

    London Cab.

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  6. Snake Plissken

    That Ruby sweary thing

    I tried reading it. I think I made it as far as "I'll pay for a boxing ring, I know martial arts, I'll kick your ass" before losing the will to live.

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  7. Andraž Levstik

    Fun fun fun

    Hmm would the C-like macro language be m4???

    Anyway this would be great as a programmers version of a BOFH ;)

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  8. John
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    Mighty Boosh

    Reminds me of Tony "This is an ahhtrage" 'Arrison from the Mighty Boosh. Perhaps that will be Ms. Stob's next parody.

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