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It's completely appropriate for an art piece about the limitations of the 1960's mainframe era to end with a demonstration of how little we have actually progressed.
Brava!
I have a 25 kloc Haskell program, and by around 10 kloc I was sure I did't want to need to track down another backtrace-less crash with "head: empty list".
So, I wrote this module: http://source.git-annex.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=blob;...
It's imported into every module in my program via a common include which also pulls in other support stuff. Now if I slip up and use head, I get a compile time error as there are two conflicting heads. If I really want to (after all, sometimes you have an invariant) I can use Prelude.head, and I can `git grep Prelude\.` to find all the partial code in my program (currently about 15 occurrences). Or I can read the fine comments in my module for a hint to a non-partial version to use.
There are other approaches, but I've found this to be a fine compromise.
I do. Well, not private messages, but the rest of it (including all the forks). Checked into branches of the git repository so any clone has all the data.
A lot about cities, but nothing about the ~10% that still don't live in them. The general message of the parts of rural America I've lived in seems to be "we're not like everyone else". (The "we" is important.)
From that, you get common worries about encroaching suburbs (the "everyone else" pushing us out). The "we" varies, from small funky communal pockets, and of course religious groups desperate to be their own thing, to the dying breed (but still generally dominant in rural life) of farmers.