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June 2019

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New Hampshire installs first historical marker to honor computer programming - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/6/16/18680941/new-hampshire-basic-first-historical-marker-beginners-all-purpose-symbolic-instruction-code
New Hampshire has installed what appears to be the first historical highway marker honoring computer programming, according to the Concord Monitor. The new sign honors BASIC, Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language that was invented at Dartmouth College in 1964.
#basic #history #imported:pinboard #programming
archive.org #28165

Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

https://katemacdonald.net/2016/12/08/collaborating-with-anne-mccaffrey-an-interview-with-elizabeth-moon/#comments
I had been a teenage McCaffrey completist, but once I’d read Sassinak – an engrossing space opera about planet pirates, orphan enslavement, naval training, in-ship subversion and space heroics with the totally magnificent Commander Sassinak (her only name) – I put the Dragons of Pern into a box and moved off into space with Elizabeth Moon.
#imported:pinboard #mccaffrey #moon #scifi
archive.org #31164

Collaborating with Anne McCaffrey: An interview with Elizabeth Moon – Kate Macdonald

https://katemacdonald.net/2016/12/08/collaborating-with-anne-mccaffrey-an-interview-with-elizabeth-moon#comments
I had been a teenage McCaffrey completist, but once I’d read Sassinak – an engrossing space opera about planet pirates, orphan enslavement, naval training, in-ship subversion and space heroics with the totally magnificent Commander Sassinak (her only name) – I put the Dragons of Pern into a box and moved off into space with Elizabeth Moon.
#mccaffrey #moon #scifi
archive.org #28163