At 3:16 PM -0700 9/23/02, Erik Price wrote: >On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 04:53 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>Of course, we authors always figured out "slartibartfast in the >>fjords" ways of getting our signatures in the book somehow. One time, >>I stuck it in the ASCII values of a string that appears only in hex, >>for example. > >(1) Sherlock doesn't do any scandinavian languages yet, as far as I >can see. What does that really mean?
Slartibarfast was a fjord designer in the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series, creating fjords in newly designed planets. He put his name in the side of one because he wanted to (and not getting credit otherwise), and the heros of the book happened upon it. Hard to explain, read the books by Douglas Adams and wave your towel. >(2) Like developers who put easter eggs and other doo-dads in their >software. Incidentally, I heard that Apple has really been cracking >down on this in their products (I forget where I read it). > Apple doesn't really let any eastereggs, names of designers, any 'personal references' at all anymore. Kinda a good idea, with several thousand current employees and many thousand former employees, who should get the credit for what.
