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[tyomitch]

Язык Алгол удивительным образом совпадает по названию со звездой Алголь (бета Персея), чьё название, в свою очередь, образовано от арабского обозначения демона -- аль-гуль. (Оттуда же гули в фэнтези, и слово ghoul вообще).

Так что вот ещё один аццкий язык, в придачу к Аде.

[Конь]

Поэтому VB продолжает рулить
А мне слово "аль-гуль", когда я на него бросаю быстрый взгляд, очень сильно напоминает слово гугл...

[Antonariy]

Это заговор!!!

[Конь]

Вопрос только в том, включать ли туда гугль...

[tyomitch]

Ещё нашёл в Википедии обалденную метафору:

And compare the clean opening of Black Sea, which has a Name section, to the cluttered, overbolded intro of Red Sea, which forces the reader's eye to grope uncomfortably like blind man on a nude beach, before it can actually read the first sentence of the article.

[tyomitch]

Нашёл в одном из блогов. Сформулировано действительно здорово -- не прикопаться.

Most of the world's characters still take two bytes per character to represent in their respective ANSI code pages.

[tyomitch]

Um ..this sounds very strange (in fact so strange that I can't be making it up!), but I remember reading something on the web around 5 years ago that claimed that the development of Windows 3.1 (I think it was 3.1) was delayed because coders had spent too much time in the office playing Lemmings.

Specifically I remembered it was the Archimedes (what a machine! - could have been a world beater - great British inginuity, poor British marketing) version, which seems strange because I don't thing Acorn computers ever sold in the US (though I guess a software company would collect all the latest hardware to play around with).

According to mail sent from an anonymous source to Richard G. Hallas, the editor of RISC User magazine:

> Just as an aside, there are actually quite a
> few Acorn fanatics at Microsoft, and it's a
> little known fact that the Archimedes version of
> Lemmings was responsible for delaying Windows
> 3.1 by about a week because a bunch of Windows
> developers refused to get back to work until
> they'd completed all the levels!
>
> "Fred Bloggs"
> Windows UI Development

Curses! - just think - if only DMA had figured out how to create an infinate number of levels
in Lemmings, we would be living in a Windows free world.

[tyomitch]

Слово "петух" по-французски звучит будет "coq", а по-арабски (в транслитерации) -- "deek".
Американцам тот факт, что "кок" переводится как "дик", кажется забавным.