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  • Perhaps oleg simply wishes to point out that his preferred alternative (strings, I presume he has a favorite among the many) is as untestable as OR, even though it multiplies the unknowns in a most non-occam-like way.

    Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In? 2008

  • Your mileage may vary and thanks occam and curtis..

    Korea heating up 2010

  • I really wanted to play with the rich feature set of Ada, and the parallelism of occam.

    Snell-Pym » 2007 » April 2007

  • I really wanted to play with the rich feature set of Ada, and the parallelism of occam.

    Snell-Pym » What I want from a programming language 2007

  • DL replied to Bobbi on Monday, May 10, 2010 4: 10 AM occam replied to DL on Monday, May 10, 2010 4: 20 AM

    eggheadcafe.com articles 2010

  • In this paper we introduce the core features of CSO (Communicating Scala Objects) - a notationally convenient embedding of the essence of occam in a modern, generically typed, object-oriented programming language that is compiled to Java Virtual Machine (JVM) code.

    Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog 2008

  • i would hope that someone like occam would notice if i have improved from a long time ago..

    Korea heating up 2010

  • well i know for a fact occam went out and read one of the things that i put up. he thought i was wrong and he went back and sure enough, he just forgot what was trivial when he read it.

    The election of 2008: not listening to Cassandra 2010

  • when in doubt trust occam, why does the conservative government repeatedly abandon dark skinned, muslim, canadian citizens? what's the common thread?

    You have GOT to be fucking kidding. CC 2009

  • _like little ships_, and in value 23 _carats_ each [158]; large quantities of fine silk, with damasks and taffetas; large quantities of musk and of _occam_ [159] in bars, quicksilver, cinabar, camphor, porcelain in vessels of divers sorts, painted cloth, and squares, and the drug called Chinaroot.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

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