“Excuse me while I barf in Larry Wall's general direction.”

—  Erik Naggum

Re: Some more misc. Lisp queries http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/d671a424235e9f18 (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Perl

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Norwegian computer programmer 1965–2009

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