> On 07-04-2018, at 2:52 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>  just in case
> they ever start handing out Ig Nobel awards (1) in the field of computer
> science (sic),

I think they call those 'Microsoft Senior Fellow'.

> I want to claim  prior art (2). I assert that I am the
> perpetrator of the most ghastly syntax mashup since invention of English,
> or possibly even (gasp!) Perl.
> 
> The $! delimiter means that the stuff before it should be interpreted as
> Smalltalk, so if you were to mix this up with unix shell syntax, it might
> look something like this:
> 
>    lewis at lewis-Gazelle-Pro:~/squeak/Squeak5.1$ run osp64.image
> 
>    sqsh> 3 + 4 !
>    7
>    sqsh> 3 + 4
>    7
>    sqsh> 3 + 4! | /bin/cat
>    7
>    sqsh> exit
>    lewis at lewis-Gazelle-Pro:~/squeak/Squeak5.1$ 

I bow before the Master.


tim
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