Roald Dahl, a British writer.
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dahl
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dahl.
Editorial note
Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) had a daughter who died of complications from the Measles.
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Quick take
Roald Dahl, a British writer.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of dahl gathered in one view.
A surname of Scandinavian origin.
Alternative spelling of dal. [Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for dahl.
noun
Roald Dahl, a British writer.
See also: dhal, pigeon-pea, cajan-pea, cajanus-cajan, catjang-pea
noun
A surname of Scandinavian origin.
See also: dhal, pigeon-pea, cajan-pea, cajanus-cajan, catjang-pea
noun
Alternative spelling of dal. [Any of many dried husked pulses (legume), including peas, beans and lentils.]
See also: dhal, pigeon-pea, cajan-pea, cajanus-cajan, catjang-pea
Example sentences
Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) had a daughter who died of complications from the Measles.
Ryan Dahl (ry) the creator of node.js started working for Joyent during its early development.
Please consider donating to the Gary Dahl Shelter for Abused and Abandoned Pet Rocks.
I remember some MS folks talking to Ryan Dahl about doing this back at nodeconf 2011.
She loves that, especially Roald Dahl stories.
I don't think Ryan Dahl stepped down on good terms.
> Node creator Ryan Dahl has a stated aim for Node to never provide a blocking API—even filesystem access and DNS lookups are catered for with non-blocking callback based APIs.
I recall Ryan Dahl saying that he first looked at other languages, but he picked JS because it simply didn't have a server-side presence, and so he could 'define' the ecosystem to be async.
>Node was created by software developer Ryan Dahl as a way of building and running entire online applications with JavaScript—the standard programming language for writing code that runs in your browser.
(Disclosure: I am the CTO of Joyent.) We are not and have not been the stewards of node.js to convert node.js developers into paying Joyent customers; rather, we became the stewards because we employed Ryan Dahl at the time (summer 2010), we were (and are) avid and early users of node.js ourselves, and we saw that node.js needed corporate stewardship.
Quote examples
Ryan Dahl in 2011 interview: "Hopefully in the next 6 months we'll release a 1.0 version of Node.
The writing reminded me of Roald Dahl's "The Ratcatcher."
"What I should've done is really start with a fraction of what I would actually need and once you have enough demand, raise more," Dahl said.
A lot of good take-aways from this, the most noteworthy and obvious one though: In interview, Dahl talked at length about his regret that he didn't bootstrap the company, instead trying to raise "a significant amount" early on.
Proper noun examples
Joyent funded Ryan Dahl, Isaac Schlueter and other committers since 2009 or 2010, before the majority of programmers had heard of node.js.
It rather reminds me of the rather absurd/sinister stories by Roald Dahl.
By Ryan Dahl: the guy that created node.js.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use dahl in a sentence?
Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) had a daughter who died of complications from the Measles.
What does dahl mean?
Roald Dahl, a British writer.
What part of speech is dahl?
dahl is commonly used as noun.