The question, "when exactly was VMC released?" has the usual several answers. You can pick a year between 1993 and 1996. This page points to more detailed references.
Richard accepted the award, talked about evil multinational companies (that's how Bob Metcalfe summarized his remarks) for a while, the presenter mentioned who had made the award possible, and Richard said something like, "I appreciate the recognition, but it's more important that corporations like Microsoft not receive the patents that contribute to their power to..."
One of the conventions of "Regular Expressions" is to look at the bottom for references to such other pieces as O'Reilly's "Open Source Revolution". Perhaps reading that will give you what you're after.
What has the biggest mindshare? Visual Basic, or JavaScript, or Perl, depending on how you define things.
For a Linux audience, I'll recommend "A HREF = "http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-10-19 97/swol-10-scripting.html">How to choose a scripting language".
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The question, "when exactly was VMC released?" has the usual several answers. You can pick a year between 1993 and 1996. This page points to more detailed references.
Richard accepted the award, talked about evil ..."
multinational companies (that's how Bob Metcalfe
summarized his remarks) for a while, the presenter
mentioned who had made the award possible, and
Richard said something like, "I appreciate the
recognition, but it's more important that corporations
like Microsoft not receive the patents that
contribute to their power to
I apologize for any confusion I've promoted.
One of the conventions of "Regular Expressions" is
to look at the bottom for references to such other
pieces as O'Reilly's "Open Source Revolution".
Perhaps reading that will give you what you're
after.
Neither O'Reilly nor I belittle formal reasoning.
I apologize for any such impression.
Let's take this topic to comp.software-eng; I'm
more comfortable there.
For a Linux audience, I'll recommend "A HREF = "http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-10-19 97/swol-10-scripting.html">How to choose a scripting language".
What has the biggest mindshare? Visual Basic, or
JavaScript, or Perl, depending on how you define
things.
For a Linux audience, I'll recommend "How to choose a scripting language" .