Talk:Mel Kaye

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[edit] Alternative version of story

I added the alternative link to The Story Of Mel, because screen readers using speech synthesizers cannot cope with the formatting used in the free-verse version. Most windows screen readers will always read the  character as "A circumflex", so the text becomes unreadable. Graham 1 July 2005 10:13 (UTC)

Real Programmers use code monkeys to read their screen, damn it. And they like it! Project2501a 11:22, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean by a code monkey? The article code monkey refers to snippets of code pasted together to make a program. Or am I just missing something :) - Graham/pianoman87 talk 12:43, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

I suppose it would have helped if I read the article Real Programmer before typing the response above. :) Graham/pianoman87 talk 07:28, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

It's not only Windows readers that can't read the Jargon File formatting. It's useless on my Seamonkey running on Linux as well. The encoding says UTF-8, but a "HEAD http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html" will reveal that the page is presented as ISO-8859-1, regardless of the encoding directive at the top of the document. Therefore, I took the liberty of adding a link to the plain-text version that also has the merit of popping up as #1 on Google. The Jargon File reference should probably be removed entirely until ESR or whoever is maintaining it corrects the problem. leifbk 22:33, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

That plain text version sounds almost beautiful because the speech syntehsizer is emphasising all the punctuation. I've therefore removed the Jargon File link and cleaned up the references section. Graham87 01:26, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Does he even exist?

Short answer: YES, but one can only wonder why he hasn't identified himself, he is famous, but nobody seems to have really met him in the last few decades. His name appears in a manual, and a USENET post... but beyond that we don't know anything about him (I mean we dont know what he looked like or who else was in his family, where he grew up, when he was born, etc) The stub tag prompts wikipedians to expand the page, but there are not any verifiable souces that have further info about him. If your name is mel kaye then leave a message on my talk page, or I'll have to fly to America to look you up in the phone book. This article is destined to be static for all eternity. MichaelBillington 04:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)