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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

we modern boys at st custards now use ADJILE methodolgy which is merely like coding while walking over niagra falls on a titerope.

😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am not familiar with Nigel Molesworth books beyond a quick skim of Wikipedia, but this had me hooked right from the first illustration.

A parody of the venerable Dragon Book by Aho, Lam, Sethi & Ullman in the style of Ronal Searle

Chapter 1 reminds me of A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

marnanel knows their stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard
This is a travesty of both computers and Molesworth. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@dazzlepansy @dgerard Brief moment of apprehension when I noticed where it's hosted but phew, it's not actually n molesworth slash hem hem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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@dgerard
Thank goodness for that chiz chiz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

@dazzlepansy @dgerard knoing mi luck it would be the tale of SIGISMUND the mad maths master and his xperiences in the boudoir of a RHOMBUS hem hem