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The Jaunt by Stephen King

Chapter 1

"This is the last call for Jaunt-701," the pleasant female voice echoed through the Blue Concourse of New York's Port Authority Terminal. The PAT had not changed much in the last three hundred years or so - it was still gungy and a little frightening. The automated female voice was probably the most plesant thing about it. "This is Jaunt Service to Whitehead City, Mars," the voice continued. "All ticketed passengers should now be in the Blue Concourse sleep lounge. Make sure your validation papers are in order. Thank you."The upstairs lounge was not at all grungy. It was wall-to-wall carpeted in oyster gray. The walls were an eggshell white and hung with plesant nonrepresentational prints. A steady, soothing progression of colors met and swirled on the ceiling. There were one hundred couches in the large room, neatly spaced in rows of ten. Five Jaunt attendants circulate, speakingin low, cherry voices and offering glasses of milk. At one side of the room was the entranceway, flanked by armed guar

Proposal: OCaml pattern matching on non-literal strings

Project type: Making a change to the semantics (and possibly syntax) of an existing, widely-used programming language to fix some problem you (or the language’s community) perceives in that language.

How our project meets the requirements of its project type: We are changing the semantics of how pattern-matching works on a reasonably widely-used language (OCaml). This fixes a problem that prevents string matching to behave properly when the match cases are not string literals.

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Schemetrical / SDS iOS Proposal.tex
Last active August 16, 2019 07:08
Proposal for a UBC seminar on iOS mobile development.
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