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		<title><![CDATA[From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1296]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The pivotal machine in the emergence of the Wintel culture was probably the IBM PC/AT. It sold in sufficiently large quantities to IBM customers to create its own software markets, and was sufficiently poorly engineered and over priced to ensure that its buyers didn't perceive it as a threat to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:15:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Programming language choices]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=695]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Two programming languages, or actually development environments, dominate most current discussion: BASIC and Java. Whether used independently or within IDEs, Studios, or other marketing constructs, these are, however, out of place in any serious development context; and both for the same reason: no amount of marketing momentum and library accretion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:15:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When scripts become programs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=644]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In thinking about the general issue of scripting versus programming I decided to look for some examples of early BASIC to see how close that really was to what we would now consider a simple scripting tool -i.e. an interpreted language without a requirement for static typing. To my surprise...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:11:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's Its, its' ... Apostrophic!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=499]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife bought Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves for Christmass - what a mistake! turns out, her tendency to delete commas is wronger than my tendency to put them in. Worse, at least for her, there's an IT angle allowing me to poke fun at her in this blog....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:00:57 -0800</pubDate>
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