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[3:30:34 PM] *** Canthros is Online
[3:30:44 PM] <M-x herb> MY SCRIPT IS NEARING PERFECTION
[3:31:41 PM] <Canthros> Do you have a producer yet?
[3:31:51 PM] <M-x herb> HAR HAR HAR
[3:32:04 PM] <M-x herb> (”mechanical laughter”?)
[3:33:22 PM] <Canthros> “Off by One”: The tender, heartwarming story of a young variable trying to find its way in an ever-changing, dynamically scoped environment. By Herbert P. Mann.
[3:33:52 PM] <Canthros> Sorry, should have inserted the phrase ‘against all odds’ there at the end.
[3:34:42 PM] <M-x herb> It’s your regular story of VAR meets $, VAR loses $, VAR meets LET, and switches between the two depending on which environmental scope he happens to be in.
[3:35:18 PM] <M-x herb> At one point, LET $VAR=$(…), but that never worked out
[3:35:26 PM] <Canthros> Exactly! They’ll *love* it! Nerds are a very desirable demographic.
[3:35:48 PM] <M-x herb> Sadly, I can’t really take credit for “The First Script Ever Written In BASH!”
[3:36:37 PM] <Canthros> Oh, God. I think that just made a little part of me die, Herb.
[3:37:06 PM] <Canthros> Kind of ironic, that. Given that I did bring this nonsense up, I really have no one to blame but myself.