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Haha, I still remember Winston the pigeon racing to deliver his 4GB of data...

For anyone interested: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm

MyBroadband is a joke. Anyone who takes their news articles seriously probably also reads the Daily Sun religiously.

This was the main idea behind the South African nukes as well. If memory serves, the country had only 6 nuclear warheads, but they were never meant to be anything but a deterrent (and probably a display of power and capability).

Keen is available on Steam nowadays for not too expensive (I think $5).

Keen Dreams is excluded from the bundle IIRC, but that's abandonware by now and has been opensourced on Github.

In South Africa, Pascal and Delphi are still taught in schools... In fact, the University of South Africa actually has about 2 Delphi semester modules also, along with C++.

Some schools have switched over to Java, and most other universities have jumped onto the Java/.NET bandwagon.

So in a nutshell, I think it's still pretty prevalent in 3rd world countries. It's not a bad starting language to introduce students to programming concepts, although I would prefer Python for a first language.

Welcome to the list. :p

Are we by any chance both South African and trying to lecture each other about South African culture?

Most people speak English to bridge the gaps. At work, in the shops, etc.

I don't think Stallman would submit his work for a PhD, mainly because one's PhD work becomes the property of the university. It's against everything he stands for.

In certain industries, where independent double programming is required, this could be used to catch people who steal/copy code.

Nope, original spelling of the topic said "price".

Jeff Atwood hates "forum style" interfaces and discussions for Q&A sites. I've always disagreed with this. Forum style discussions not only solve problems, but also branch out into brilliant discussions. I myself have been part of a few math forums before.