Congratulations, Aliy. I know you’ll do a great job as editor.

40 years of vi (OK, now vim)
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I was the shadow housing committee chair on a district council in the early ’80s. IIRC there was a Parliamentary Select Committee report at the time the predicted precisely the selling off council houses would lead to a housing crisis in the future. As it has.

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Asterix is fabulous. And interesting to compare the name jokes in the English and French versions.

“appealing” or “appalling”?

So, if one wanted to read about Indian history (and the East India Company and the British Raj, which is all I was taught at school), what books would you recommend?

It’s well worth reading. I always tremble when I start a book with a technology theme, expecting nonsense, but this was convincing. It’s a well constructed book and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

Apologies, I haven’t read this article - it’s behind a pay wall. BASIC had a huge impact as a gateway to programming but Fortran, COBOL and Algol were hardly inscrutable numbers and glyphs as the snippet suggests.