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Thu 01 Jan 2009Exhibition throws up the unexpected
YOUNG SCIENTISTS:BEN McREDMOND adopted the old idea that if you want something done right then do it yourself. Seeing inadequacies in existing web page programming languages he decided to invent one of his own.
The 15-year-old fourth year student from Gonzaga College in Dublin spent the last "three months solid" devising and then programming his new language called Cirrus. "I wasn't satisfied with PHP [an existing language] but that didn't make sense because it was developed specifically for web design," he said.
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