Posts from August 22, 2000

Sad news: DeepLeap is closing up shop. I’m sure the story will be told elsewhere, but I imagine it boils down to lack of funding.

Dr. Dobbs has an overview of C# (doesn’t everyone these days). There’s some information in the article that I haven’t read in others, including the laugh-worthy statement that the presence of goto in C# is an innovation. Edsger Dijkstra’s famous paper on goto was published in March, 1968.

Emmanuel Goldstein’s analysis of Judge Kaplan’s ruling in favor of the MPAA in the DeCSS lawsuit makes for interesting reading. I still haven’t finished reading the full ruling, but my early impressions concur with Goldstein’s. The judge was definitely constrained by the moronic DMCA, but he was also clearly biased against 2600.

Downloading K-Meleon will give you something to feel good about from the Mozilla project.