Use of first person in a book [OT tangent]

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.159.1255130283.20261.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:33:35AM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> >Humourous typo: Near the last page "online assembler" should be "inline
>> >assembler". Thought it's true that online asm is forbidden too...
>>
>> Ha ha, now that's some involuntary humor. Thanks, Don! Also thanks for
>> the patches that make the code in the book work :o).
>
> Off topic, but one day a few years back, I did a quick hello world CGI
> program in assembly just for laughs: http://arsdnet.net/cgi-bin/a.out
>

That's awesome :)

Speaking of things being implemented in unlikely langauges, ever see the 
high-precision PI computator written in MS batch?
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tricks-A-Batch-of-Pi.aspx

> You'd be amazed at how many web people were freaked out by the very idea!
>

Considering most of the "web developers" I've had the misfortune to work 
with, you'd be amazed just how unamazed I am at those reactions ;)