Steve Cook suggests a holiday for computer nerds:
Far better than World Hello Day would be Hello World Day, celebrating 32 years of every programming manual's stock first example. Global diversity could be honored by recognizing our rainbow of programming languages, from Pascal to Brainfuck, and when we were done we could all sing a song, examine some art, and return to our homes without bothering anyone.
Hey, it makes more sense than "Talk Like a Pirate Day"...
Of course, as always with a Snarkout post, there are more offbeat links in the post than you would want to shake a stick at, and way more than I feel like cut-and-pasting over here, so click over there and read the whole thing.
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All week, I've been buried by a wave of requests to write about LOLCODE today. Normally, I do try to honor requests from readers, but from the time I started my friday pathological languages, I've always tried to stick to languages that actually had *something* interesting about their semantics.
I really like the spam letters I get with the subject line "Hello Dear". Sometimes the spammer is even named Hello Dear. Here's the latest example.
Once again, Texas leads the way in absurdities. One kook has decided he doesn't like to say hello, and has convinced the whole county to go along with him. Can you guess why?
Nothin' makes more sense than Talk Like a Pirate Day, ye scurvy dog.