an eddy in the bitstream
Maker of lunches.
Teller of stories.
Singer of songs.
Crafter of code.
Kicker of darkness.
Couldn’t help but think of the story of the Tower of Babel this morning reading this NYT article about the world’s digital library. Makes me want to resist it, just on principle. But then, that wasn’t my first impulse. My first impulse was: how could I search it? So I’ll have to resist myself as well.
I learned a lot about character encodings last year while working on libswish3. Here’s a site I should have known about then: Richard Ishida’s homepage.
By way of this good article on web browsers and encodings.
Thanks, Sam.
Back before I was a computer geek I was a historian. A historian of ideas: literature, philosophy, religion. That kind of thing.
Then I discovered Perl. Which Made Sense to me, after a little while of hacking at it.
Larry Wall, who invented Perl, explains why that might be.
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