From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M O O N that spells moon
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:51:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtuvn8vl.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zgywlzmk.fsf@zoho.eu
Facts for fans:
Lua is moon in Portuguese. Made in Brazil:
In 1993, the only real contender was Tcl, which had been
explicitly designed to be embedded into applications.
However, Tcl had unfamiliar syntax, did not offer good
support for data description, and ran only on Unix
platforms. We did not consider LISP or Scheme because of
their unfriendly syntax. Python was still in its infancy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)>
The subject phrase is from a Stephen King character, Tom
Cullen, "[h]is speech pattern includes a number of verbal
tics: repetition, the phrases " M-O-O-N spells (x) [...]"
<https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Cullen>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-22 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-21 2:18 M O O N that spells moon Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-21 9:09 ` tomas
2021-03-22 1:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-03-22 3:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-03-24 14:26 ` TRS-80
2021-03-24 15:30 ` tomas
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