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Pike 7.6 Released

Posted by timothy on from the fighting-words dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today version 7.6 of the Swedish programming language Pike was released. Some of the noteworthy additions are support for the Bittorrent protocol, the OBEX protocol (to communicate with cellular phones), IPv6, PGP and Bz2. If you want to beat the crap out of your Python/Perl program speedwise, try porting it to Pike..."

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  1. bork bork bork by mog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bork bork bork? bork, bork. bork, bork bork!

    bork bork.

    -bork

  2. Re:Someone please explain to me.. by shaitand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First, a bittorrent library hardly is on the level with discovering a continent.

    Second, Christopher Columbus didn't discover North America, this is a common Myth sadly propogated in the lower grades in school and then generally retaught in high school... yet another example of our piss poor educational system.

  3. Please fix your sig. It is wrong. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am going to make the assumption that your sig refers to the current resident of 1600 Penn. Ave.

    It's wrong.

    President Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut...

  4. Re:Someone please explain to me.. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Then who did?

  5. Re:Someone please explain to me.. by matithyahu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First the 'Native Americans' via landbridge
    then the phoenicians,
    then the vikings,
    then the chinese
    and then Christopher Columbus
    Sorry I don't remember the dates but you should look it up anyways

  6. Re:Someone please explain to me.. by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had to ask, this being /. I was expecting an answer like Bob the Caveman from Mars. :->

  7. Re:Someone please explain to me.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, Christopher Columbus didn't even discover America fifth.

    Firstly, British and Icelandic fishermen had been fishing off the banks of Newfoundland for decades before Columbus set sail. Secondly, in order to have "discovered" somewhere it helps not to die believing you went to India. Thirdly, Columbus never visited the mainland anyway; all he "discovered" was the West Indies. The man who "discovered" the American continent for modern Europeans was John Cabot, another Italian who sailed from Bristol in the Matthew a few years later.

    Columbus not only wasn't the first, he barely figures in any accurate account of pre-colonial American history.