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Neuromancer by William Gibson. I guess I must have missed reading most of his books for a very long time despite the topics being of interest to me.

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the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, which is roughly 1 million miles (1.5 million km) away from our planet on the opposite side of the sun.

This seems a little poorly stated. L2 and the sun are on opposite sides of earth. As written it seems to read as if earth and L2 are on opposite sides of the sun.

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Adventure of the Atari VCS, The Hobbit on an Oric-1, and Head Over Heels and Batman on an Amstrad 6128.

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Tea and two slices of bread and cheese. Sometimes a bit of orange juice with it. Alternatively, yogurt with some granola,but not very frequently.

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It was already mentioned by @RHOPKINS13 so I didn’t bother.

As for Qt itself, I wasn’t thrilled with their path regarding licensing back in the day, like only allowing GPL (not LGPL) on Unix like systems and attempting their own special licenses, and only offering a paid commercial license for Windows development. These days I can’t say I find the $300+/month subscription option for commercial usage very appealing either. They can of course do whatever they want, just as I look at what is at my disposal and what’s out there and choose according to my needs and preferences (which may be very different from other individuals). Essentially, their decisions early on soured my opinion of Qt (regardless of any technical merits), and since those days I have always had other options that have worked well enough for me. It may also have played a role in my relative lack of interest in KDE,

I’m just expressing my feelings, and it is not a statement whether anyone else should make any specific choices. :)

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Since you said any language, you have Free Pascal and its gui editor Lazarus.

För wxWidgets and C++ you have wxFormBuilder.

The Glade editor for gtk3 programs (C, C++, or whatever language one might use). (edit: just a gui editor that is used separately from whatever IDE or editor you write your code in)

Eclipse and WindowBuilder for Java.

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