Forty-two.Forty-two.Forty-two. 12/25/2004 05:20 PM Douglas Adams will soon be coming to the silver screen (again). New concept art, casting info, updated news, as well as some background on the project has been diligently compiled. A short trailer and some additional concept art can be found on the official movie site. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Forty-two.Grok Headline matches for Forty-two.At least it's still forty-two...At least it's still forty-two... 04/09/2005 10:19 PM Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy isn't sounding too flash. "This is a terrible, terrible film and it makes me want to weep." At least we enjoyed the trailer! Forty Years of Moore's LawForty Years of Moore's Law 04/05/2005 06:43 PM Forty years ago todayForty years ago today 02/15/2004 02:33 PM Actually, it was in 1960, four years before the Beatles showed up on Ed Sullivan, that Doug McIlroy published Macro instruction extensions of compiler languages, which appears to be a seminal paper in the literature of metaprogramming. I mention this because a number of folks have responded to last week's item, Programs that write programs, pointing out that Lisp programmers have been there, done that: "your note about code generation, and the referenced discussions - bits of which i'd already read elsewhere, left me with a really eerie feeling, that i might not be living in the same dimension with you folks. you see, there's a practice of code generation which extends back decades: lisp. code generations is a lisp programmer's bread and butter." "In the lisp world, they call these macros. The idea is pretty widely known, though not too many languages implement them. Perl 6, and by extension the Parrot interpreter, will include macros, and they will thus be available to any language that gets implemented on top of Parrot (which currently includes Ruby, Python, (maybe) PHP, and, of course, Perl)."... FAQ: Forty years of Moore's LawFAQ: Forty years of Moore's Law 04/01/2005 08:55 AM Gordon Moore's famous law has been around for four decades. Not bad for an idea he thought wouldn't last. Photos: Moore and his law Forty shows for BBC Two birthdayForty shows for BBC Two birthday 04/13/2004 04:46 AM BBC Two's The Office and Monty Python are among 40 shows picked to celebrate the channel's 40th birthday. Forty years after Fannie Lou HamerForty years after Fannie Lou Hamer 07/28/2004 09:54 PM Forty hurt in Bulgaria gas attackForty hurt in Bulgaria gas attack 04/09/2004 04:13 PM At least 40 people are hurt, some seriously, in a poison gas attack at a police office in the capital, Sofia. Forty Percent of All Email is SpamForty Percent of All Email is Spam 03/13/2003 10:16 AM NLM Funds Forty Health Information and
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