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The Least Successful Executions History has furnished us with two executioners worthy of attention.
The first performed in Sydney in Australia. In 1803 three attempts were made to hang a Mr....
The Least Successful Police Dogs America has a very strong candidate in "La Dur", a fearsome looking schnauzer hound, who was retired from the Orlando police force in Florida in 1978.
He consistentl...
The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag. -- Kin Hubbard
The less time planning, the more time programming.
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #10 -- SIMPLE SIMPLE is an acronym for Sheer Idiot's Monopurpose Programming Language Environment.
This language, developed at the Hanover College for Technol...
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12 -- LITHP This otherwise unremarkable language, originally developed in San Francisco, is distinguished by the absence of an "S" in its character se
use...
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #13 -- SLOBOL SLOBOL is best known for the speed, or lack of it, of its compiler.
Although many compilers allow you to take a coffee break while they compile, ...
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry.
VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are a...
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #17 -- DOGO Developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Obedience Training, DOGO DOGO heralds a new era of computer-literate pets.
DOGO commands include SIT...
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #17 -- SARTRE Named after the late existential philosopher, SARTRE is an extremely unstructured language.
Statements in SARTRE have no purpose; they just are....

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