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True | mithaldu | null | I'm not disputing the fact that PHP is terrible, but you cannot deny that they are in a much better situation, since they'd only need to start writing good tutorials, not actually figure out how to get them to newbies.
Also, debating the value of tutorials is a red herring. Google Trends data clearly shows that newbie... | null | 0 | 1319640318 | False | 0 | c2ulniq | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulniq | t1_c2uljpw | null | 1427785660 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prakashk | null | My experience was completely opposite. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Camel book. I was already fluent in C and shell when I read the book. I don't know if that made any difference (compared to your situation). | null | 0 | 1319640364 | False | 0 | c2ulnrd | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulnrd | t1_c2ul1ky | null | 1428185573 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gbacon | null | I measure my understanding of new concepts by how well I can approach them from different angles. Let's remember that the Camel book is a reference, not a tutorial. It's *supposed* to give you all the options! | null | 0 | 1319640429 | False | 0 | c2ulo2m | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulo2m | t1_c2ul1ky | null | 1427785667 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bongwhacker | null | Perl: an explosion at the ASCII factory.
| null | 0 | 1319640460 | False | 0 | c2ulo8f | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulo8f | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785670 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | Here's the approaches I know of:
* Windows and Unix: Extension determines file type, shells often have mappings from file types or extensions to programs that open them
* BeOS: The filesystem tracks MIME types along with things like filenames, making extensions largely irrelevant. Essentially the same as the Window... | null | 0 | 1319640467 | False | 0 | c2ulo9m | t3_lo9p9 | null | t1_c2ulo9m | t1_c2ucu7y | null | 1427785670 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascii | null | I seem to remember that early versions of the original Bourne shell only allowed one letter variable names.
But even then, q, r and s are obviously much more explicit variable names. | null | 0 | 1319640495 | False | 0 | c2uloer | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uloer | t1_c2ulm6k | null | 1427785673 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | To compare fairly, ["perl database tutorial"](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1270&bih=939&q=perl%20database%20tutorial&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=) links to the perl.com DBI tutorial as the first hit. While it's old, DBI hasn't changed much, and it does demonstrate correct us... | null | 0 | 1319640532 | False | 0 | c2ulolq | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulolq | t1_c2ulcen | null | 1427785681 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bholzer | null | That's pretty damn cool. My CS professors are all the most intelligent teachers I have. | null | 0 | 1319640540 | False | 0 | c2ulond | t3_lp89n | null | t1_c2ulond | t1_c2ukzis | null | 1427785681 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | That's silly, the dude made no attempt to disguise who he is, ever, and is, you know, one guy. If he secretly paid a bunch of redditors to comment about how great the product was that would be astroturfing. | null | 0 | 1319640546 | False | 0 | c2uloo8 | t3_lohrk | null | t1_c2uloo8 | t1_c2ukypv | null | 1427785677 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | I would want to know that a text file is CSV so I can open it in the right program. Likewise, I'd like to know that an XML file is SVG or part of a DOCX bundle or a config file or whatever. Parsing the headers doesn't give me this. | null | 0 | 1319640634 | False | 0 | c2ulp43 | t3_lo9p9 | null | t1_c2ulp43 | t1_c2ujkt8 | null | 1427785682 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | strong_grey_hero | null | Thanks for posting this, it brings back lots of memories. I used to follow 'Future Crew', and loved running their stuff. I think I got into them after I got the book [Walkthroughs and Flybys](http://www.amazon.com/Walkthroughs-Flybys-Cd-Megabytes-Presentations/dp/0187839263/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319... | null | 0 | 1319640649 | False | 0 | c2ulp71 | t3_lp3rw | null | t1_c2ulp71 | t3_lp3rw | null | 1427785691 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | Awesome, well said. I'm going to use this in my organization to fight for software quality.
However, the trick I still haven't quite figured out is how to balance a commitment to software quality with the equally true need to avoid working on things to perfection when it's *not* in fact required -- "premature optimiz... | null | 0 | 1319640654 | False | 0 | c2ulp86 | t3_lpod6 | null | t1_c2ulp86 | t3_lpod6 | null | 1427785684 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F4il3d | null | At its core, this is true. I personally love trinkets and enjoy my small part in their development. Yet I am cognizant ( at my tender age ) that things are not always as they appear . I use reason rather than emotion when evaluating individuals. | null | 0 | 1319640658 | False | 0 | c2ulp8t | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2ulp8t | t1_c2ulix0 | null | 1427785684 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | I'm not sure I really understand the difference between advertising and spreading news. You have to be completely disinterested to spread news in good faith or something? Should people write disclaimers that they use google ads if they post a link to their blog too? | null | 0 | 1319640687 | False | 0 | c2ulpe0 | t3_lohrk | null | t1_c2ulpe0 | t1_c2ukfeq | null | 1427785688 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chiniwini | null | What is a good book to learn Perl? | null | 0 | 1319640792 | False | 0 | c2ulpx4 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulpx4 | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785695 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | True but you can predict when they will happen, therefore avoid them in loops or performance critical sections. With GC you can stop at any time and that's undesirable or unacceptable in some scenarios. Even if your thread isn't hitting the GC hard you can still be paused because of other threads. | null | 0 | 1319640808 | True | 0 | c2ulq00 | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulq00 | t1_c2ul8oe | null | 1427785695 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | Good name for a rock band. | null | 0 | 1319640816 | False | 0 | c2ulq1v | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulq1v | t1_c2ulo8f | null | 1427785695 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm not saying I and everyone I work with are perfect. Of course we all write tons of bugs during the development of a project, but we fix them, right? I just personally don't like to use smart pointers. Oh, and just because can never be perfect, should we strive to be? | null | 0 | 1319640899 | False | 0 | c2ulqge | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulqge | t1_c2ulnig | null | 1427785699 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yes but that's pretty explicit behavior, you did the copy/strdup operation in copy constructor and you know the behavior of vector. | null | 0 | 1319640973 | False | 0 | c2ulquf | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulquf | t1_c2ul8by | null | 1427785702 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | first of all, template metalanguage is turing complete, this means that proving it correct by testing is impossible. Besides, to get even the slightest guarantee out of code transformation you'd need a much more reliable system, i.e. a metalanguage similar to a theorem prover's one, which may guarantee to be correct an... | null | 0 | 1319641059 | False | 0 | c2ulr9u | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulr9u | t1_c2uljin | null | 1427785707 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | What I meant was what is praised as an innovation of a hip, new scripting language (Ruby) is actually a feature borrowed from one of the oldest programming environments in existence (Smalltalk). I suppose that cannot be called properly ironic but it is worth remarking.
(On an unrelated note: why is anarchotroll being ... | null | 0 | 1319641081 | False | 0 | c2ulrdr | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulrdr | t1_c2ulmqz | null | 1427785709 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | I don't pretend to be a knowledgeable programmer, but what the fuck is going in that line of code? | null | 0 | 1319641161 | False | 0 | c2ulrs9 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulrs9 | t1_c2ulbib | null | 1427785715 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | timconradinc | null | I dislike many of the O'Reilly books simply because it seems that the author spent more time coming up with 'cute' variables to use for the programming examples than writing the actual explanation. And often the code itself was such a fragment that it wasn't really useful in any meaningful way.
But, then again, I have... | null | 0 | 1319641188 | False | 0 | c2ulrwg | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulrwg | t1_c2ul1ky | null | 1427785716 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | It's highly recommended for Tiny BASIC. | null | 0 | 1319641215 | False | 0 | c2uls1b | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uls1b | t1_c2ulm6k | null | 1427785717 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raydeen | null | I had a helluva config.sys back in the day. Spent 3 hours one day experimenting with different memory configs and sorted them all into a menu system that started with no memory management at all (Ultima 7, Commanche, etc.) and progressively added in the TSR's as needed. At the end of the day, I had a menu entry just fo... | null | 0 | 1319641221 | False | 0 | c2uls2u | t3_lp3rw | null | t1_c2uls2u | t1_c2uk3w8 | null | 1427785719 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | I'm assuming you're maintaining mainly *nix machines? | null | 0 | 1319641281 | False | 0 | c2ulsec | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulsec | t1_c2ul9fl | null | 1427785722 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | osiman | null | I would start with the manpages: [epoll](http://linux.die.net/man/4/epoll), [kqueue](http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue) They have some useful general information. The first few hits in Google has some minimal examples. Both kqueue and epoll needs about the same amount of code as poll(2) to get going, not ... | null | 0 | 1319641353 | True | 0 | c2ulsrq | t3_lpi78 | null | t1_c2ulsrq | t1_c2uknvb | null | 1427785728 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dr9 | null | I've used it to get data from a file and match it to a enum in c# (literal to name of enum). Unless the language spec has been changed since - this was the only way to accomplish this. | null | 0 | 1319641384 | False | 0 | c2ulsxg | t3_lpe0w | null | t1_c2ulsxg | t1_c2uk2iq | null | 1427785731 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | But without those shitty PHP/MySQL tutorials, how would Anonymous be so successful with their leet SQLi? | null | 0 | 1319641384 | False | 0 | c2ulsxj | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulsxj | t1_c2ulait | null | 1427785731 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | [Modern Perl](http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/) | null | 0 | 1319641395 | False | 0 | c2ulszy | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulszy | t1_c2ulpx4 | null | 1427785738 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlitzTech | null | That's exactly the position I'm in. I can easily see this being useful in any web game I make as a wow-factor to the otherwise probably inferior graphics, but I haven't a clue as to where to start! | null | 0 | 1319641524 | False | 0 | c2ultp8 | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ultp8 | t1_c2ujchd | null | 1427785750 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | suntzusartofarse | null | I think that would work in PHP, too. Not surprising given PHP's origins. | null | 0 | 1319641525 | False | 0 | c2ultph | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ultph | t1_c2ulbib | null | 1427785750 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LenHolgate | null | :) - Sound pretty straight forward. I'll try and shuffle it up my list of things to do, the problem is, right now Windows people are paying me and I don't get much chance to work on Unix systems any more :( | null | 0 | 1319641543 | False | 0 | c2ultsr | t3_lpi78 | null | t1_c2ultsr | t1_c2ulsrq | null | 1427785741 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kmwurf | null | strange ,cause i only got a 9800gt running here with 35 FPS | null | 0 | 1319641683 | False | 0 | c2ulukv | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ulukv | t1_c2uk5cl | null | 1427785751 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319641736 | False | 0 | c2uluv7 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uluv7 | t1_c2ulb7r | null | 1427785755 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chiniwini | null | Thank you. I've never given Perl a try, and I feel like it's time I should. | null | 0 | 1319641823 | False | 0 | c2ulvco | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulvco | t1_c2ulszy | null | 1427785760 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Nevermind the tutorials, what about *the language*? | null | 0 | 1319642092 | False | 0 | c2ulwrd | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulwrd | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785781 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eruonna | null | Just guessing, but I think it builds a string consisting of a $ (from the "\$") followed by the value of $vitals followed by the string "[1] = 'red'". That gives a valid perl statement, assuming the value of $vitals names an array, which it does in this case. That statement is given to the eval, which evaluates it, s... | null | 0 | 1319642117 | False | 0 | c2ulwwl | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulwwl | t1_c2ulrs9 | null | 1427785781 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fragglet | null | I've heard this kind of argument from C++ proponents as well - "oh, but you weren't using *modern* $LANG". To me it's sort of like the programming language equivalent of the No True Scotsman Fallacy. Sure, languages evolve and gain new features, but as far as I can tell it's still a sucky language. [This](http://learn.... | null | 0 | 1319642197 | False | 0 | c2ulxct | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulxct | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785796 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marssaxman | null | I'd like to think I'm not a terrible programmer, since I've been making my living at it for a couple decades now, but online tutorials are exactly the way I'd go if I were going to dabble with a new language. It's one thing to read the spec - if the language has one - and another to draw inferences from examples of rea... | null | 0 | 1319642204 | False | 0 | c2ulxe6 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulxe6 | t1_c2uljpw | null | 1427785798 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319642215 | False | 0 | c2ulxgg | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulxgg | t1_c2ul9p7 | null | 1427785798 | 54 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drzowie | null | That's an interesting point. I've been a perl user and advocate for 16 years, and I've sort of lost touch with what kids are using to learn perl these days (mostly they don't -- they prefer B&D languages like python).
Most of the perl coders I know learned from Perl 4, since I'm old enough to hang around people... | null | 0 | 1319642333 | False | 0 | c2uly4a | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uly4a | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785798 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xardox | null | Use Python instead of Perl. Problem solved. Or use PHP if you just want more problems. | null | 0 | 1319642382 | False | 0 | c2ulydx | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulydx | t1_c2ulb7r | null | 1427785801 | -11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319642392 | False | 0 | c2ulyg4 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulyg4 | t1_c2ulrs9 | null | 1427785803 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igouy | null | > properly ironic
"properly" !!!
"[**irony**](http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/american-english/irony?q=irony): a type of usually humorous expression in which you say the opposite of what you intend"
> praised as an innovation
No, just "praised" - `anarchotroll` did not suggest it was an innovation... | null | 0 | 1319642404 | True | 0 | c2ulyif | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulyif | t1_c2ulrdr | null | 1427785804 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lanzkron | null | Nuh-uh | null | 0 | 1319642412 | False | 0 | c2ulyk1 | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulyk1 | t1_c2ul428 | null | 1427785806 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | holyteach | null | Well, in 1997-1998, when I was writing dynamically-generated web pages, Perl was pretty much the only game in town. Ruby was still virtually unknown outside of Japan, PHP was (even more) terrible, and Python was barely used outside of the Netherlands.
Perl, on the other hand, was mature and incredibly fast for a scrip... | null | 0 | 1319642458 | False | 0 | c2ulysg | t3_loy44 | null | t1_c2ulysg | t1_c2ujezj | null | 1427785809 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Yserbius | null | A lot of programming languages have this issue. Try finding a PROLOG tutorial, or LISP for that matter. | null | 0 | 1319642663 | False | 0 | c2ulzyk | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulzyk | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785823 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobappleyard | null | Pure insanity. It's constructing code to be passed to the interpreter on the fly, in order to update a value in an array. | null | 0 | 1319642808 | False | 0 | c2um0s3 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um0s3 | t1_c2ulrs9 | null | 1427785831 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skocznymroczny | null | If you want C++ with GC, just use D. | null | 0 | 1319642814 | False | 0 | c2um0sv | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2um0sv | t3_lpicx | null | 1427785832 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | amccloud | null | Looks like it was
https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/253c4730f9387a9571a572e725c50cf82520eca1 | null | 0 | 1319642830 | False | 0 | c2um0wf | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2um0wf | t1_c2ukrsq | null | 1427785834 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jengu | null | You can already do this, that's a memory allocator implementation detail. It could be doing all sorts of other work on another thread or even talk to your event loop to schedule times to do work on its internal tracking structures. The problem is heap compaction, which moves where objects are actually located. We'd nee... | null | 0 | 1319642857 | False | 0 | c2um120 | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2um120 | t1_c2ullfv | null | 1427785841 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319642886 | False | 0 | c2um17m | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um17m | t1_c2ulrs9 | null | 1427785845 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Perl sucks.
But let me explain before you downvote me.
What Perl enabled was to work as a glue language that is powerful and sufficiently fast.
I should say... shell scripts suck more than perl.
But it is all suckage, stemming back from the 1980s to the 1990s and 1995.
Ruby and Python showed that you can be POWERF... | null | 0 | 1319642994 | False | 0 | c2um1ts | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um1ts | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785853 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jengu | null | > I can't recall a time that using smart pointers was required or performant.
Sometimes the real semantics of what you're trying to do is reference counting. For example, if you want to keep an object in a server alive so long as there are clients asking for updates on it.
Also, unthreadsafe reference counting is ... | null | 0 | 1319643007 | False | 0 | c2um1wp | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2um1wp | t1_c2ul904 | null | 1427785847 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | > irony: a type of usually humorous expression ...
That's a rather limited definition; I think the [Wikipedia page on Irony](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Irony) does a better job of explaining the various meanings of the term. In any case, I already admitted I misused the term, so I don't understa... | null | 0 | 1319643062 | False | 0 | c2um277 | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2um277 | t1_c2ulyif | null | 1427785852 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Please tell me what current and in-depth perl tutorials your Google search throws up that it elides on mine. I'd be thrilled to find some. | null | 0 | 1319643114 | False | 0 | c2um2h3 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um2h3 | t1_c2uluv7 | null | 1427785856 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | P1h3r1e3d13 | null | Oh. Man, I got carpal tunnel for nothing. Glad we settled that, though. Carry on with your life. | null | 0 | 1319643123 | False | 0 | c2um2it | t3_lisma | null | t1_c2um2it | t1_c2ujxwa | null | 1427785857 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | linuxlass | null | That's the way I learned to do it. I thought the whole nested container thing was a really cool feature of perl and found it very easy to learn.
(But I learned perl years and years ago, when perl 5 was new. I think I learned from "Learning Perl", but I don't really remember. And I had a local guru to ask questions of... | null | 0 | 1319643133 | False | 0 | c2um2l6 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um2l6 | t1_c2ulexg | null | 1427785857 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kixx | null | Not in 15.0.874.102 beta | null | 0 | 1319643151 | False | 0 | c2um2oa | t3_lp4i5 | null | t1_c2um2oa | t1_c2uiuwt | null | 1427785858 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CydeWeys | null | > Besides can one really learn a language from a tutorial?
Yes, most definitely. Especially if you already know other languages. A tutorial is exactly what you need.
> Programming is supposed to be hard.
Well that's not true. Programming should be as *easy* as possible, while not compromising on other desi... | null | 0 | 1319643165 | False | 0 | c2um2r7 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um2r7 | t1_c2uljpw | null | 1427785859 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Krenair | null | PHP has official man pages - pman. | null | 0 | 1319643178 | False | 0 | c2um2to | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um2to | t1_c2uljpw | null | 1427785859 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lolrddt | null | What language should those aging C hackers move to? I know zero programming, but was eyeing C as a pretty cool thing. | null | 0 | 1319643252 | False | 0 | c2um394 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um394 | t1_c2um1ts | null | 1427785864 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | linuxlass | null | It's an interesting language. Very versatile, too - you can write simple scripts or full-blown applications with it. | null | 0 | 1319643374 | False | 0 | c2um3zc | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um3zc | t1_c2ulvco | null | 1427785874 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Replace "Perl" with "any well known programming language"
Almost any tutorial you will find does not reflect actual coding practices, nor will they reflect the way something should actually be done. All of these tutorials are not written by experts, and just by random people that felt like it and may or may not have ... | null | 0 | 1319643443 | False | 0 | c2um4dj | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um4dj | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785879 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319643448 | False | 0 | c2um4ej | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um4ej | t1_c2ulvco | null | 1427785879 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Guvante | null | I hated scheme in college. But that was due to no attempt to actually teach functional programming directly. Instead they told us "1 line of code per function" and assumed that was enough, there was a comment about immutability, but it seemed like a byproduct at the time. By the end immutability seemed interesting, but... | null | 0 | 1319643519 | False | 0 | c2um4s0 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um4s0 | t1_c2ulxgg | null | 1427785883 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319643573 | False | 0 | c2um52s | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2um52s | t1_c2ulqge | null | 1427785888 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darkon | null | Ah. Second edition, though. Published in 1996, so it's **15 years out of date**. | null | 0 | 1319643595 | False | 0 | c2um573 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um573 | t1_c2ulii0 | null | 1427785890 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nthitz | null | We originally wrote this in [Processing](http://processing.org) but then ported it to Actionscript and HTML5 using the Canvas! | null | 0 | 1319643597 | False | 0 | c2um57o | t3_lps94 | null | t1_c2um57o | t3_lps94 | null | 1427785890 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chneukirchen | null | And add like 500 lines resetting the changed defaults... | null | 0 | 1319643627 | False | 0 | c2um5dw | t3_lotys | null | t1_c2um5dw | t1_c2ukl9v | null | 1427785892 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | I don't think I know any programmers who don't hate at least one language o_O Are you really happy with what*ever* you get handed?
I don't mean I go around attacking perl programmers and telling them to convert or die. I mean my job satisfaction would take a nosedive if I were told to start programming in it, or eve... | null | 0 | 1319643724 | False | 0 | c2um5xq | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um5xq | t1_c2ulxgg | null | 1427785900 | 65 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | free_at_last | null | It upsets me, that my company are currently falling into every point you just made.
Good article. | null | 0 | 1319643724 | False | 0 | c2um5xs | t3_lpod6 | null | t1_c2um5xs | t3_lpod6 | null | 1427785900 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drinkmorecoffee | null | What I don't understand about code visualizations is a lot. | null | 0 | 1319643827 | False | 0 | c2um6ic | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2um6ic | t3_lpjq8 | null | 1427785908 | 41 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | From what I know, [Boehm's GC deletes objects in deterministic order](http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/finalization.html) i.e. if an object A points to an object B, then the object A is finalized before object B is finalized:
> Our conservative garbage collector supports a form of finalization (with GC_... | null | 0 | 1319643912 | False | 0 | c2um70r | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2um70r | t1_c2ulyk1 | null | 1427785913 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | miningzen | null | Okay, fine, I admit it, we're in the future. | null | 0 | 1319643939 | False | 0 | c2um761 | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2um761 | t3_lpjq8 | null | 1427785916 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dah01 | null | This sounds like hell. Is this hell? | null | 0 | 1319644047 | False | 0 | c2um7s3 | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2um7s3 | t3_lnr3k | null | 1427785933 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Ruby has some tutorials which suck ... I liked Chris Pine's tutorial.
I'd wish it would become the official version, the only version, and would be constantly updated on github.
But other than that, Ruby as a language is elegant. Never regretted using it in the 6 years (save for the Encoding crap, I hate that shit an... | null | 0 | 1319644078 | False | 0 | c2um7yg | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um7yg | t1_c2uly4a | null | 1427785932 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lendrick | null | ...because they teach people to use Perl. | null | 0 | 1319644153 | False | 0 | c2um8cv | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um8cv | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785935 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rilt | null | Whoa! An upgraded version of codeswarm! This tool looks awesome, I like the fact that it is significantly easier to distinguish files and what is going on compared to codeswarm. | null | 0 | 1319644325 | False | 0 | c2um9bq | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2um9bq | t3_lpjq8 | null | 1427785944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > first of all, template metalanguage is turing complete, this means that proving it correct by testing is impossible. Besides, to get even the slightest guarantee out of code transformation you'd need a much more reliable system, i.e. a metalanguage similar to a theorem prover's one, which may guarantee to be corre... | null | 0 | 1319644335 | False | 0 | c2um9dx | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2um9dx | t1_c2ulr9u | null | 1427785945 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | haeikou | null | Why does the perl community even hand this over to a search engine? They are completely giving up control about the learning path of anybody who is interested in perl.
* For everything Microsoft, there is msdn.
* For everything Android, there is d.android.com.
* Even Apple has ADC.
* python has a Beginner's Guide o... | null | 0 | 1319644428 | False | 0 | c2um9wu | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2um9wu | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785952 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | woodyallin | null | I like Perl. It has it's place in bioinformatics. I use it almost everyday. well haters gonna hate. | null | 0 | 1319644443 | False | 0 | c2uma00 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uma00 | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785955 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | I'll go back to my C#/C++ while the cool kids laugh at me :/ | null | 0 | 1319644453 | False | 0 | c2uma21 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uma21 | t1_c2ulyg4 | null | 1427785956 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I've just now used it on projects that I have worked on. It doesn't tell you a lot but it looks fantastic and it's a lot of fun. | null | 0 | 1319644475 | False | 0 | c2uma6u | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2uma6u | t1_c2um6ic | null | 1427785963 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sunshine-x | null | that's a great point. when I was learning perl, there weren't many options and this book was considered the "bible" so I went with it. maybe I'm just not the intended reader. | null | 0 | 1319644476 | False | 0 | c2uma77 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uma77 | t1_c2ulo2m | null | 1427785956 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | If you find it again please let me know. | null | 0 | 1319644498 | False | 0 | c2umabl | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2umabl | t1_c2ukk8e | null | 1427785967 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319644546 | False | 0 | c2umalt | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umalt | t1_c2um2h3 | null | 1427785965 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Because Perl is not the product of a company or of a single person, but of a disjointed group of volunteers. | null | 0 | 1319644555 | False | 0 | c2umao3 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umao3 | t1_c2um9wu | null | 1427785967 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sunshine-x | null | I'm old. | null | 0 | 1319644590 | False | 0 | c2umavz | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umavz | t1_c2um573 | null | 1427785970 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | haeikou | null | They could also just write some documentation and link it prominently on perl.org. It's not without reason that google is asked in the first place. | null | 0 | 1319644623 | False | 0 | c2umb2y | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umb2y | t1_c2ul9p7 | null | 1427785972 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sunshine-x | null | Admittedly, it's from an older edition of the text. I'm old. | null | 0 | 1319644629 | False | 0 | c2umb4c | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umb4c | t1_c2ulhdz | null | 1427785972 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | treitter | null | That reflects my general problem with Perl, though -- every time I read Perl code, it's written in a totally different style, so I need to learn whichever quirks that author likes to use. And it's particularly hard to look up the meaning of single-character operators (especially when their meaning changes based on the ... | null | 0 | 1319644633 | False | 0 | c2umb57 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umb57 | t1_c2ul1ky | null | 1428185566 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SweetIrony | null | He's a java programmer, that means he loves embedding servlet references in XML., hence his recommendation. This is just like Scala/Lift, where the template acts like a router between the controllers .. I mean services (Freudian slip). Originally they said this wasn't MVC too, but it is MVC, its just that they are ch... | null | 0 | 1319644641 | False | 0 | c2umb6y | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2umb6y | t1_c2ufufj | null | 1428185567 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | colinhect | null | Nice try... Emacs | null | 0 | 1319644647 | False | 0 | c2umb88 | t3_lotys | null | t1_c2umb88 | t1_c2uhm7m | null | 1427785972 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | That works of course, the problem is that GC kicks in too late for scarce resources. E.g. if you use a file-backed stream object in two places in code, you must make pretty sure that you close it in one place before you open it in another. Or, you need to take great care to dispose SQL statements, connections or whatev... | null | 0 | 1319644648 | False | 0 | c2umb8g | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2umb8g | t1_c2ulh2r | null | 1427785972 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ocaml_Kaizen | null | Does it require minimal prior programming experience, either in perl or others? | null | 0 | 1319644737 | False | 0 | c2umbqm | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umbqm | t1_c2ulszy | null | 1427785977 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | As a .NET developer, I see SOAP used mostly when I control both ends of the call. REST-like APIs seem to be perferable when exposing APIs to other businesses. | null | 0 | 1319644740 | False | 0 | c2umbrc | t3_lowx8 | null | t1_c2umbrc | t1_c2uk2r5 | null | 1427785978 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sunshine-x | null | and I tried to *learn* from this. I swear I almost burnt the fucking thing at my desk. | null | 0 | 1319644756 | False | 0 | c2umbuv | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2umbuv | t1_c2um17m | null | 1427785980 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | While I'm not entirely married to the idea, I am considering have view-models in their own project.
I have mixed feelings about product-area projects. I often run into problems where I want circular references. | null | 0 | 1319644768 | False | 0 | c2umbww | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2umbww | t1_c2ukfn5 | null | 1427785980 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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