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Re: M O O N that spells moon


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: M O O N that spells moon
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 04:51:42 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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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