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The Perl6 community has done something very interesting and injected
inline test cases from their test suite into the Perl6
Synopsises. It's a neat idea. Literate Testing perhaps? Or maybe more
accurately, testable spec writing. See Synopsis 4
for an example.
I also thought this was
very cool. I learned some interesting things:
The $100 Laptop Project had Google Summer of Code interns.
The $100 Laptop display will be 6 x 4.5 inches, 200 dpi, 1200 x 900 pixels...
... but a given pixel is a red pixel, a blue pixel, or a green pixel (forever).
The SoC intern working on a Gnome theme for the $100 Laptop has done a lot of research about what's going to look good on these Laptops by building a nested X server that mimics this display mode.
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do to font rendering to make
it readable. I've got to say the $100 Laptop is the coolest thing
happening in the computer world right now. The fact that Paul Graham
appears to be actively working on Arc is a distant second.
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