Thanks, Chuck, for elucidating the deep cultural context of this  
great day.

It's only a matter of time before the TV shows, "American Code  
Monkey", and "So You Think You Can Hack".  Nerds rule!

-- John

On Aug 26, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Chuck Rasbold wrote:

> The Internet Anagram Server
>
> http://wordsmith.org/anagram/
>
> confirmed "invokedynamic" as an anagram for
> "da vinci monkey".  Also, "yank vinci demo".
>
>
>
> The wikipedia entry for "code monkey":
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_monkey
>
> indicates that the term can be one of approbation,
> which is how I meant it.  I do appreciate Coulton's
> song of the same name, though.
>
>
>
> And, you can buy "monkey da vinci" shirts here:
>
> http://www.cafepress.com/monomal/248379
>
>
> -- Chuck
>
>
> John Rose wrote:
>> FYI: An important JSR 292 milestone.  -- John
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> *From: *John Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>> *Date: *August 26, 2008 2:07:35 AM PDT
>> *To: *Da Vinci Machine Project <[email protected]  
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> *Subject: **Happy International Invokedynamic Day!*
>> *Reply-To: *Da Vinci Machine Project <[email protected]  
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> On a modified JVM, a test program with more than one invokedynamic  
>> call site successfully linked, bootstrapped, and ran with the  
>> dynamically linked target methods.
>> I declare August 26, 2008 as International Invokedynamic Day!
>> -- John
>> P.S. Enclosed is the demo program, with the winning output.
>> It uses the anonymous class feature to wrangle bytecodes, but real  
>> users would rely on ASM or some such.
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