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My night at the museum

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I actually never thought that they would recognize open source programming work like this. It makes me proud of my country and fellow citizen Daniel.

I hope this inspires young programmers around the globe like it inspires me, it must be an incredible honor and feeling to recieve such a prize for work you've done.

Congratulations Daniel! Lord knows how many developer hours you've saved the world.

This part caught me - is it pronounced "see URL"? This whole time I and everyone I know have pronounced it as "curl" as in "curling".

Just like when it comes to GIF, there's the "correct" pronunciation, and then there's the one that makes sense.

Indeed, I learned in school that it was short for "cat URL", since it functions like the standard `cat` command but takes a URL instead of a file or pipe.

Just goes to show that we are very good at coming up with incorrect justifications for things.

This reminds me of the time I wanted to build a URL shortener that handles lists and even hierarchies, and I bought the domain urls.cat (URLs `cat`). I realised then how close it was to "URL scat", so it's probably a good thing I abandoned the idea.

I think that's just the explanation of the name, not necessarily a rule how to pronounce it. As for pronounciation, let's compare: "see-you-are-el" vs. "curl". I think I'll stick with "curl" ;)

And Qt is officially pronounced "cute".

Curl is easier to say than c-url :)

It's incredible to think of how much of what I do every day is built on Daniel's work. I'm doubtful there's another library which is ubiquitous and useful in quite the same way. Well deserved!

Tldr; The creator of curl awarded the Polhem prize, arguably the most prestigious award for technical innovation in Sweden.

The prize includes a medal from the king, a healthy chunk of cash and minor fame.

Congratulations Daniel! And good on the committee for recognizing solid open source work.

Congratulations, Daniel! And thank you for cURL, it's just terrific.

It's wonderful to see work like this being officially recognized and rewarded. Somebody did a great job of writing a non-technical explanation of the award, too.

Is he a bit autistic?

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