With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the computer language, which some real languages reflect more perfectly than others. Plato was brilliant for his time but reality is not expressable in terms of arbitrary visions of perfection, and furthermore, one programmer's ideal is often another's hell.

With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.

Fragmentation is like classful addressing - an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.

Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.

Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.