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True | joehillen | null | I was just trying to find that article to post it. Thanks. | null | 0 | 1319655015 | False | 0 | c2unzts | t3_lpuyx | null | t1_c2unzts | t1_c2uns74 | null | 1427786838 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joehillen | null | [/r/tinycode](/r/tinycode) | null | 0 | 1319655040 | False | 0 | c2unzzl | t3_lpuyx | null | t1_c2unzzl | t3_lpuyx | null | 1427786840 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mostly_kittens | null | One of the biggest issues I have with programming Perl is not necessarily that there are lots of ways to do something but that most of the time there is no actual benefit in choosing one way over the other. | null | 0 | 1319655097 | False | 0 | c2uo0cb | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo0cb | t1_c2unjh7 | null | 1427786845 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > B&D languages like python
First time I've ever heard Python referred to as such. | null | 0 | 1319655167 | False | 0 | c2uo0rj | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo0rj | t1_c2uly4a | null | 1427786851 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | int0x13 | null | We were talking about *community projects* like all of the aforementioned languages have created, not books that cost money. | null | 0 | 1319655277 | False | 0 | c2uo1gf | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo1gf | t1_c2unzbz | null | 1427786860 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anarchotroll | null | At the end it is all about risk and cost of opportunity. In other words: "is it worth the effort?", does it add more value than the rest of the work items you own?
E.g.: I always have too much on my plate and I do the things that were ranked high priority.
I will respond "I have too much on my plate" to the low priori... | null | 0 | 1319655335 | False | 0 | c2uo1tz | t3_lpod6 | null | t1_c2uo1tz | t1_c2umof4 | null | 1427786865 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Filmore | null | [This](http://cjcliffe.github.com/CubicVR.js/cubicvr/samples/custom_shader/noise.html), [this](http://cjcliffe.github.com/CubicVR.js/cubicvr/samples/camera/multi_camera.html) and [this](http://cjcliffe.github.com/CubicVR.js/cubicvr/samples/shadows/alphamap_shadows.html) don't work either (just a big pink blob) but the ... | null | 0 | 1319655412 | False | 0 | c2uo2bs | t3_losip | null | t1_c2uo2bs | t1_c2ulinh | null | 1427786872 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotability | null | This seems like a rebranding of DCI to me. | null | 0 | 1319655413 | False | 0 | c2uo2c1 | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2uo2c1 | t3_lovjq | null | 1427786872 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikkle | null | Of course Python checks syntax; the GP obviously doesn't realise that a typo in a variable name isn't a syntactic but a semantic error.
I can't conceive of a compiler/interpreter that doesn't check syntax. Either the source can be parsed, which means it's syntactically fine, or it can't, which means there's an error, ... | null | 0 | 1319655430 | False | 0 | c2uo2g8 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo2g8 | t1_c2unwa1 | null | 1427786873 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mipadi | null | So, just out of curiosity, who else is in this set with Jobs and Gadaffi? Bernie Madoff? Michael Vick? Pee-Wee Herman? | null | 0 | 1319655483 | False | 0 | c2uo2rl | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2uo2rl | t1_c2unm66 | null | 1427786877 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | norkakn | null | BioPython is written like shit, and python makes it impossible to fix. For example, the tree data structure is missing the majority of the utility methods needed for basic operations, and the factories don't even let you specify your own subclass. Python (2 at least) doesn't have a good way to apply a mixin to an ins... | null | 0 | 1319655511 | False | 0 | c2uo2yu | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo2yu | t1_c2umqjt | null | 1427786883 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That doesn't say anything about *when* the GC will run.
It is also non-deterministic in the sense that if you have data that looks like a pointer it may mark the object as still in use. | null | 0 | 1319655532 | False | 0 | c2uo33z | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2uo33z | t1_c2um70r | null | 1427786885 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikkle | null | What's the B&D part about Python, that you have to indent your blocks properly? Wow, it's like living in North Korea. | null | 0 | 1319655574 | False | 0 | c2uo3d6 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo3d6 | t1_c2uly4a | null | 1427786887 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LenHolgate | null | If you're interested in what MS say the benefits are then take a look at the video that I link to. Basically, RIO is designed to minimise the work needed by the kernel in reading and writing the network and provides a way to obtain completions (so the results of your read, for example) without needing a kernel mode tra... | null | 0 | 1319655606 | False | 0 | c2uo3kf | t3_lpi78 | null | t1_c2uo3kf | t1_c2unxe8 | null | 1427786889 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | You can control when the GC runs in some platforms (e.g. .NET 4+). I don't know of anyone who does that safely. | null | 0 | 1319655625 | False | 0 | c2uo3oh | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2uo3oh | t1_c2ulq00 | null | 1427786890 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lluad | null | CPAN. It has a huge amount of useful code in it. And most of it works pretty well (unless you're on OS X, but that's a rant for a different time) and solves the problem you need solved right now.
Ruby and Python are heading in that direction, but they're not there yet. | null | 0 | 1319655686 | False | 0 | c2uo41y | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo41y | t1_c2umvln | null | 1427786895 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > References, in particular, have a lot of subtlety to them.
Oh God, is that the $ / @ / % stuff? Had to modify an existing Perl script and was changing from a single value to a map of values and it took me ages to get right, all due to not properly understanding Perl's types and applicable sigils.
Wanted to iter... | null | 0 | 1319655701 | False | 0 | c2uo45c | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo45c | t1_c2un3ms | null | 1427786894 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sztomi | null | C is actually a pretty good starting point if you have patience. It gives you a very solid base and you will need to understand lots about computer architectures in general. People who are fluent with C (or even C++) can avoid many pitfalls in higher level programming languages because they have an idea of what the hig... | null | 0 | 1319655761 | False | 0 | c2uo4iq | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo4iq | t1_c2unc1r | null | 1427786899 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Cockpuncher 2: The mouth-bloodening | null | 0 | 1319655868 | False | 0 | c2uo55a | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo55a | t1_c2uljvu | null | 1427786907 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F4il3d | null | As far as I know, Madoff, Vick, Herman are still alive, Gadaffi, Jobs are recently deceased, you can expand the set with any recently deceased selfish, authoritarian, despotic person. | null | 0 | 1319655893 | False | 0 | c2uo5b9 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2uo5b9 | t1_c2uo2rl | null | 1427786909 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GavriloPrincep | null | how do you get it to do that? in vim ? | null | 0 | 1319655896 | False | 0 | c2uo5bu | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo5bu | t1_c2unwa1 | null | 1427786910 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lynxbat | null | I actually don't know him personally.
I thinking you are mixing broad thoughts with experienced pain points. I get it though: reality has a way of making good intentions end up biting you in the ass. And while I think you take it too far, I don't disagree at all.
And as a Vendor in certain spaces you need people payi... | null | 0 | 1319655906 | False | 0 | c2uo5dw | t3_lpod6 | null | t1_c2uo5dw | t1_c2unqar | null | 1427786910 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gmartres | null | Haskell is more than 20 years old. | null | 0 | 1319655919 | False | 0 | c2uo5gx | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo5gx | t1_c2un2ff | null | 1427786911 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drzowie | null | Well, Python requires particular syntactical structures to accomplish each task vs. Perl's rough-and-ready approach of allowing two or three different ones. More generally, Python seems to try to enforce a particular way of doing things -- so it is to Perl sort of as Pascal is to C. They're equivalently powerful lang... | null | 0 | 1319655926 | True | 0 | c2uo5iu | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo5iu | t1_c2uo0rj | null | 1427786912 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | heywhatwhat | null | Fair enough. Although I used man for various commands, it never occurred to me to look at even "man perl." I will also admit that it was a half-hearted effort on my part to learn perl, since I only needed it for a single project. Day to day, Python and MATLAB meet my needs for scientific programming.
Still, I think th... | null | 0 | 1319655945 | False | 0 | c2uo5mv | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo5mv | t1_c2unuie | null | 1427786913 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | i-hate-digg | null | It's not the same. This kind of thing is comparatively easy to do with assembler. Not gcc, which is designed with the assumption that the user will link with libc 99.9% of the time. | null | 0 | 1319656024 | False | 0 | c2uo642 | t3_lpuyx | null | t1_c2uo642 | t1_c2uns74 | null | 1427786921 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nezcarotte | null | I have the impression that you just didn't read what was said above in the post. If one of the structures in the union has padding bytes, these are not necessarily initialized by zero. This was exactly the point there.
I don't know on what architecture you usually do your socket programming, but on linux the DS for IP... | null | 0 | 1319656093 | False | 0 | c2uo6g6 | t3_lowdc | null | t1_c2uo6g6 | t1_c2ufp7r | null | 1427786925 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > At least python still has a dictator who made the language his life
Has Larry left Perl? | null | 0 | 1319656096 | False | 0 | c2uo6gz | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo6gz | t1_c2un2ff | null | 1427786925 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | norkakn | null | Python's SOAP libraries are complete failures, and its unicode support is shit.
Ruby lacks anywhere near the depth of modules that perl has, so many projects, most of the time to do it in ruby would be reinventing the wheel.
I haven't done any Scala, so no clue. Many people who program in perl also know other langua... | null | 0 | 1319656107 | False | 0 | c2uo6j7 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo6j7 | t1_c2umvln | null | 1427786925 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Huh, ok, didn't know that. I conjectured from their community size. Mistake on my end. | null | 0 | 1319656123 | False | 0 | c2uo6m7 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo6m7 | t1_c2uo5gx | null | 1427786927 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah, but that's one of the only exceptions to the rule. Seriously, he's the one of the only ones that has done that. | null | 0 | 1319656145 | True | 0 | c2uo6qb | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo6qb | t1_c2undr3 | null | 1427786929 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | I use Komodo IDE, was worth the money for me. But i think you can get Padre to do that as well. | null | 0 | 1319656149 | False | 0 | c2uo6rd | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo6rd | t1_c2uo5bu | null | 1427786929 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to create a new format for 99% of programs, tbh. There's plenty of data interchange formats for everything imaginable. People seem to want to because of NIH. But to answer your question, yes. And you can ask freedesktop.org to include your heuristic in their standard shared-mime-inf... | null | 0 | 1319656175 | False | 0 | c2uo6wj | t3_lo9p9 | null | t1_c2uo6wj | t1_c2unp7e | null | 1427786931 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | This also would have worked:
foreach my $bucketName (keys %$buckets)
It becomes natural once you get used to it, but it does take some getting used to. What's more, a lot of very powerful stuff can be done once you've made it. | null | 0 | 1319656185 | False | 0 | c2uo6y4 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo6y4 | t1_c2uo45c | null | 1427786931 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | I know they're different, i'm just saying there's no actual malicious intent or neglect there, just a creeping failure to get something done combined with outside effects that weren't considered fully, a kind of community rot you can say. | null | 0 | 1319656231 | False | 0 | c2uo77p | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo77p | t1_c2uo1gf | null | 1427786935 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Yes, Larry left Perl 5 ten years ago to do Perl 6. | null | 0 | 1319656321 | False | 0 | c2uo7pu | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo7pu | t1_c2uo6gz | null | 1427786944 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | Sadly, this also doesn't work in all cases. Because a lot of times snippets of code end up getting emailed to contributors, who then check them in themselves. We found that in some cases more than 50% of a file consisted of stuff that was emailed or posted on mailing lists and then committed by members.
Any person who... | null | 0 | 1319656357 | False | 0 | c2uo7y5 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uo7y5 | t1_c2u1x8q | null | 1427786944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NotCoffeeTable | null | My Dad gave me "Programming PERL" by Larry Wall when I was 11-12... so I often consider PERL my first language. The problem I find is that for most jobs there is a language better than PERL. After ~12 years of programming I can pick up a language in roughly 3 days, and so often I can find a language that accomplishes m... | null | 0 | 1319656366 | False | 0 | c2uo804 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo804 | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427786945 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Well, I called it syntax because it is about as hard to check as syntax, you do not need a full semantic analysis to figure out that the variable referenced on line n of the scope is never assigned on any of the previous lines. | null | 0 | 1319656413 | False | 0 | c2uo8ag | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo8ag | t1_c2uo2g8 | null | 1427786949 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Python seems to try to enforce a particular way of doing things
Indeed, if you open a Python prompt and type 'import this' you'll see their design philosophies explicitly express their belief that TIMTOWTDI is bad.
I'm just used to B&D being used to refer to statically typed programming languages. | null | 0 | 1319656432 | False | 0 | c2uo8en | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo8en | t1_c2uo5iu | null | 1427786951 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | But the GPL depends up on this to prevent people from licensing popular products under other licenses. It's a feature, not a bug, or else there would be an explicit version that assigns copyright back to the project creator, to prevent such problems. | null | 0 | 1319656470 | False | 0 | c2uo8n3 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uo8n3 | t1_c2tvayg | null | 1427786953 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Cheers, yeah, going to hit up my boss about that Modern Perl book and learn it. We've got an admin who loves Perl, writes all his (rather important to our processes) scripts in them, and seems to be the only one with in-depth knowledge of it. God help us if he gets hit by a bus. | null | 0 | 1319656491 | False | 0 | c2uo8rr | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uo8rr | t1_c2uo6y4 | null | 1427786955 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doclight | null | I think it's cool MS is starting to take the IO intensive community seriously. You can only go so far optimizing IO before you have to start looking for kernel level solutions.
I'll definitely have to watch the video when I get some free time. | null | 0 | 1319656521 | False | 0 | c2uo8ym | t3_lpi78 | null | t1_c2uo8ym | t1_c2uo3kf | null | 1427786958 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DontCriticizeMyEngli | null | I for one consider services to be part of the model: model is not just data, it also encompasses behaviour.
And yes, I agree with everything you said. My point was that it is not always controllers calling save or delete methods on ActiveRecord objects. | null | 0 | 1319656587 | False | 0 | c2uo9db | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2uo9db | t1_c2unxpv | null | 1427786963 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | Uh... no, I don't. But the author explicitly said this:
> Just be careful, this also grants people the ultimate freedom: the freedom to make your code (or derivatives there-of) non-free.
And it is explicitly wrong. It grants people the ability to make derivatives of your code non-free, but it most certainly does n... | null | 0 | 1319656600 | False | 0 | c2uo9fw | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uo9fw | t1_c2tup8x | null | 1427786964 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UpNDownCan | null | "Assuming reads and writes complete ... in the expected order" -- why would you want to assume that? | null | 0 | 1319656706 | False | 0 | c2uoa2w | t3_lpi78 | null | t1_c2uoa2w | t3_lpi78 | null | 1427786972 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | Also guilty as charged. PHP 4 was actually my first language so it is burned on the inside of my retinas.
I have no idea how I recovered. | null | 0 | 1319656729 | False | 0 | c2uoa7t | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uoa7t | t1_c2unrul | null | 1427786974 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I agree (don't like GCs either), but here are few lines from Stroustrup’s FAQ:
Garbage collection (automatic recycling of unreferenced regions of memory) is optional in C++; that is, a garbage collector is not a compulsory part of an implementation. However, C++0x provides a definition of what a GC can do if one is us... | null | 0 | 1319656745 | False | 0 | c2uoabi | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2uoabi | t1_c2uk8uw | null | 1427786975 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | So you're saying that although your code is freely available, if someone else is shipping it in a product that is not open-source and free, then your code isn't free.
That's an interesting viewpoint, and I see it as roughly the same as the argument that used bookstores should be banned because any financial transactio... | null | 0 | 1319656751 | False | 0 | c2uoacj | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uoacj | t1_c2tua51 | null | 1427786976 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drzowie | null | >I think Perl suffers from [choice paralysis] because of its history. To me, it just seems like more trouble than it's worth.
Again, good food for thought. I tend to to think of Perl as sort of like English (the language we happen to be using now). English is arguably the richest, most expressive language on the... | null | 0 | 1319656807 | False | 0 | c2uoapy | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uoapy | t1_c2unjh7 | null | 1427786980 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | > I hate people who brag for no good reason. Excellent progammers with a huge ego? No problem with that, they made computers and programs running on them what they are.
Assholes with huge egos who think the world cannot get along without them are still assholes, whether they have accomplished things or not. I am pe... | null | 0 | 1319656880 | False | 0 | c2uob6u | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uob6u | t1_c2ttqz2 | null | 1427786986 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | > I believe that garbage collection or reference counting is not an ideal solution to memory management. It is a compromise to protect against developers who do not understand proper memory allocation and deallocation conventions and are thus prone to code leaks into a system. It's a lazy and expensive way to preven... | null | 0 | 1319656953 | False | 0 | c2uobm8 | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2uobm8 | t1_c2ul904 | null | 1427786992 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikkle | null | What if the variable being referenced is a module global, created programmatically using setattr? The interpreter can't be sure that this code will actually produce an error until it tries to execute it.
That said, there are static checkers that will check for that case. | null | 0 | 1319656963 | False | 0 | c2uobow | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uobow | t1_c2uo8ag | null | 1427786993 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Megatron_McLargeHuge | null | Oh the irony of watching this on hardware thousands of times more powerful but having it lag due to crappy Flash buffering and multitasking. | null | 0 | 1319657117 | False | 0 | c2uocnk | t3_lp3rw | null | t1_c2uocnk | t3_lp3rw | null | 1427787006 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | He could have generalized. He could have suggested solutions. He could have pointed out parallels. He could have shown some kind of solidarity with other programmers (which he doesn't actually have, so maybe that would have been asking too much). He could have moved on to actual philosophy of open source and maybe made... | null | 0 | 1319657122 | False | 0 | c2uocow | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uocow | t1_c2tsue9 | null | 1427787007 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kalium | null | > (which are, not to put too find a point on it, 'not having money thrown at him by people he's never met just because he's just that awesome')
You mean "people told him all these things would happen because he released awesome BSD code and then said things completely failed to happen"? | null | 0 | 1319657210 | False | 0 | c2uod8y | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uod8y | t1_c2uocow | null | 1427787019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | 110 fps on my ancient 2007 MBP.
Oddly it went faster, to 140 fps when I zoomed the window bigger. 8600M GPU on this I believe. | null | 0 | 1319657250 | False | 0 | c2uodij | t3_losip | null | t1_c2uodij | t1_c2uk111 | null | 1427787033 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Probably just unsupported - I'm at work, forced to use Win Server on my desk machine. Have to try this at home. | null | 0 | 1319657267 | False | 0 | c2uodlo | t3_losip | null | t1_c2uodlo | t1_c2ukk9s | null | 1427787030 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Those all work just fine in FF Nightly on a 17" 2007 MBP.
Here's a nickel kid, get yourself a real computer. | null | 0 | 1319657371 | False | 0 | c2uoe9y | t3_losip | null | t1_c2uoe9y | t1_c2uo2bs | null | 1427787035 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | You don't seen to be understanding what I'm saying.
I am not arguing that you should treat model as just dumb data. What I'm saying is that it should contain contain *everything* except calls to external resources. Instead of this layering:
UI
models
services/databases
you have this layering
UI
... | null | 0 | 1319657444 | False | 0 | c2uoerd | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2uoerd | t1_c2uo9db | null | 1427787039 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmaddison | null | This is one of my biggest pet peeves about google.
In just about anything tech related, old results = bad results.
I've seen this trip up my friends time and time again.
Just change the timeframe from "Any time" to "Past year" in the sidebar and it fixes it about 100% of the time. | null | 0 | 1319657506 | False | 0 | c2uof4z | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uof4z | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427787041 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Wait, Perl 5 and Perl 6 are that much different? | null | 0 | 1319657516 | False | 0 | c2uof7r | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uof7r | t1_c2uo7pu | null | 1427787041 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Files have been treated as objects in file systems for decades. And with features such as hard links and virtual folders, it is not unreasonable to think of a directory as a view. | null | 0 | 1319657637 | False | 0 | c2uofy0 | t3_lo9p9 | null | t1_c2uofy0 | t1_c2ukm45 | null | 1427787048 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Martel_the_Hammer | null | I have no idea who KeyserSosa is... but FUCK that guy has a big gun. | null | 0 | 1319657704 | False | 0 | c2uogc3 | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2uogc3 | t3_lpjq8 | null | 1427787053 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | They weren't meant to be in the beginning, but at this point they're so different that Perl 6 counts as an entirely new language. | null | 0 | 1319657738 | False | 0 | c2uogin | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uogin | t1_c2uof7r | null | 1427787056 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ais523 | null | my $reference_to_2d_array = [
[1,2,3],
[4,5,6],
[7,8,9]];
print $reference_to_2d_array->[2]->[1]; # prints '8'
Perl would probably end up simpler if it didn't have array and hash variables, and just stuck entirely with references. (I find array/hash variables useful for short, one-... | null | 0 | 1319657771 | False | 0 | c2uogpw | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uogpw | t1_c2umpuy | null | 1427787059 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319657787 | False | 0 | c2uogua | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uogua | t1_c2umpuy | null | 1427787061 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ais523 | null | You don't actually need the eval in Perl either:
${$vitals}[1]='red';
This is, ofc, a really bad way to do things (and can break in interesting ways if $vitals happens to hold a punctuation mark or control code). | null | 0 | 1319657878 | False | 0 | c2uohdx | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uohdx | t1_c2uns5n | null | 1427787067 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fix-my-grammar-plz | null | > In fact, whenever a new paradigm has sprung up, Perl was able to easily embrace it with few, if any, core language changes.
But hipster Lisp! | null | 0 | 1319657959 | False | 0 | c2uohv0 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uohv0 | t1_c2un3ms | null | 1427787074 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Damn my eyes! I read that as "Killer Ideas" and my expectations were cruelly dashed. | null | 0 | 1319657968 | False | 0 | c2uohx1 | t3_lpod6 | null | t1_c2uohx1 | t3_lpod6 | null | 1427787074 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pxtl | null | Of course. SOAP was obviously going to be a temporary technology when it was implemented. It was supposed to be a simple attempt to standardize XML-RPC.
I agree that protocol buffers is the better solution, but at the time "let's standardize XML-RPC and roll with that" was a reasonable approach to trying to get *eve... | null | 0 | 1319658069 | False | 0 | c2uoiiz | t3_lowx8 | null | t1_c2uoiiz | t1_c2ulhsy | null | 1427787082 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ais523 | null | C is a rather specific programming language. There are several tasks (mostly low-level things and things where you're running under unusual constraints) for which it's still the best, most appropriate language. There are several more for which it isn't (one-off text processing scripts, for instance), and trying to use ... | null | 0 | 1319658176 | False | 0 | c2uoj7w | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uoj7w | t1_c2um394 | null | 1427787092 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | asflierl | null | I just wish you said it like this in your talk and left the provocation part out. | null | 0 | 1319658264 | False | 0 | c2uojrg | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2uojrg | t1_c2tiqzb | null | 1427787099 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319658423 | False | 0 | c2uokrr | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2uokrr | t3_lol4l | null | 1427787113 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | > Like Lisp? Your perl code will look a lot like Lisp with sigils added.
So very true. I used to write Perl sort of like Pascal, or certain C-Script variants, because i started learning things with those. Then i read the SICP and suddenly my Perl became a lot more LISPy. Closures and map all over the place. | null | 0 | 1319658447 | False | 0 | c2uokx8 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uokx8 | t1_c2uoapy | null | 1427787115 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | The VC compiler supports a form of this in SAL annotations. | null | 0 | 1319658497 | False | 0 | c2uol8d | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2uol8d | t1_c2unlq5 | null | 1427787119 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | It said the example was to build a table, not specifically build a 2d array indexed by integers, and kryptkpr provided a solution to that. The problem is with the original terrible example. | null | 0 | 1319658555 | False | 0 | c2uolk4 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uolk4 | t1_c2umpuy | null | 1427787123 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jumbox | null | To be fair, Java has 50 keywords. Not that much harder to remember. And if you were to reference all methods and libraries C has, you'd need the Congressional Library to keep all the Yellow Pages.
C, in fact any language for that matter, is utterly useless without supporting libraries.
I think your criticism should b... | null | 0 | 1319658590 | False | 0 | c2uolqe | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uolqe | t1_c2un6mw | null | 1427787125 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benjiman | null | > At most I want to deal with one repository per functional area, not per type.
Indeed, One per aggregate http://domaindrivendesign.org/node/88 | null | 0 | 1319658616 | False | 0 | c2uolw7 | t3_lpoeb | null | t1_c2uolw7 | t1_c2umrqm | null | 1427787128 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | If this is not a troll and you still seriously call it "PERL", then you really don't know anything about it. | null | 0 | 1319658669 | False | 0 | c2uom88 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uom88 | t1_c2uo804 | null | 1427787134 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mattstreet | null | People who "create keygens/patches, hacks for videogames, malware" need to understand C and assembly, most of that stuff is very low level.
Whereas if you had said web programming, basic games, math, sorting my email, mp3's - I'd have suggested a higher level scripting language. | null | 0 | 1319658784 | False | 0 | c2uomz3 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uomz3 | t1_c2unc1r | null | 1427787141 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319658787 | False | 0 | c2uomzw | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uomzw | t1_c2unc1r | null | 1427787141 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Thank you for that link. It explains exactly what's wrong with my current code base, and more importantly how to fix it. | null | 0 | 1319658865 | False | 0 | c2uonhh | t3_lpoeb | null | t1_c2uonhh | t1_c2uolw7 | null | 1427787147 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drzowie | null | Heh. No, it's more than just indenting your blocks properly -- the syntax is deliberately pruned to yield, wherever possible, exactly one way to do things. That is a design goal of the language - restricting choice. Works great if your problem and/or thinking mode of choice matches the language designer's, clashes b... | null | 0 | 1319658884 | False | 0 | c2uonlj | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uonlj | t1_c2uo3d6 | null | 1427787148 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | user246 | null | Can the executive branch cease issuing software patents without a mandate from Congress? | null | 0 | 1319658922 | False | 0 | c2uonug | t3_lpxv1 | null | t1_c2uonug | t3_lpxv1 | null | 1427787152 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319658924 | False | 0 | c2uonv4 | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2uonv4 | t1_c2ufzfx | null | 1427787153 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Filmore | null | Funny you would say that. My "real" computer is out of commission right now due to the 4th RMA for bad parts. Do hardware companies ever do a burn-in test? | null | 0 | 1319658971 | False | 0 | c2uoo6q | t3_losip | null | t1_c2uoo6q | t1_c2uoe9y | null | 1427787157 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_redditor | null | The whitehouse.gov petition thing is suffering greatly from the fact that it allows literally anyone to submit a "petition", so the petition with the most votes tends to be one of the first ones submitted, and the first ones are generally going to be written hastily and without much scrutiny.
It's also pretty safe to ... | null | 0 | 1319658982 | True | 0 | c2uoo92 | t3_lpxv1 | null | t1_c2uoo92 | t1_c2unqn9 | null | 1427787158 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tick113 | null | Maybe service is entirely too overloaded. When I imagine a pattern for web development, it shouldn't have anything to say about domain models (model objects or DDD services). A web UI, as with any UI, should simply wrap your business logic (DDD or otherwise). | null | 0 | 1319659003 | False | 0 | c2uood0 | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2uood0 | t1_c2uoerd | null | 1427787158 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Entropy | null | > save for the Encoding crap, I hate that shit and I do not need it either, no matter how many times apologets say it was "required"
Handling encoding correctly is absolutely required. Stop being such a solipsist.
> You don't see this kind of encoding crap in perl either.
*What?* Perl fully supports encoding/u... | null | 0 | 1319659063 | False | 0 | c2uoori | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uoori | t1_c2um7yg | null | 1427787163 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotability | null | >What I do need code samples for is to learn how to program in a particular language.
Yes, that's what I was talking about. I know how to program in several languages, and I can read programming documentation as well as the next guy, but I do like to read code samples to get a feel for a language, and this is where... | null | 0 | 1319659114 | False | 0 | c2uop36 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uop36 | t1_c2unjh7 | null | 1427787168 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | douglashunter | null | Yes, let's!
Feersum will pre-fork these days, but that's not the mode we run in. We opted for the "wanna make it fast, then don't let it lift anything heavy" brand of optimization. We build an autocomplete index that fits into RAM that the Feersum server can do a hash lookup on and get back a pre-encoded JSON struct... | null | 0 | 1319659184 | False | 0 | c2uopj0 | t3_lpwzq | null | t1_c2uopj0 | t1_c2unzrm | null | 1427787174 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nezcarotte | null | This is not assignment but initialization. In C++ this would correspond to the difference in operator= and a constructor. | null | 0 | 1319659184 | False | 0 | c2uopj2 | t3_lowdc | null | t1_c2uopj2 | t1_c2ujxc8 | null | 1427787174 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mike_ekim | null | I think documentation is good, but I have a slight problem with documenting the obvious, and especially documenting using different terminology:
Add a property access to the list.
push: (prop) ->
@properties.push prop
this
Why isn't this called "addProperty: (property)" ? That's what the doc says it do... | null | 0 | 1319659245 | False | 0 | c2uopwf | t3_loqpx | null | t1_c2uopwf | t3_loqpx | null | 1427787179 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Isvara | null | > I've never given Perl a try, and I feel like it's time I should.
Did you just arrive here from 1998? | null | 0 | 1319659297 | False | 0 | c2uoq8d | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uoq8d | t1_c2ulvco | null | 1427787184 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319659399 | False | 0 | c2uoqwh | t3_lq2w1 | null | t1_c2uoqwh | t3_lq2w1 | null | 1428185553 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_redditor | null | This petition was created before the 25,000 threshold was set, so it only needs 5,000 signatures.
>SIGNATURES NEEDED BY OCTOBER 23, 2011 TO REACH GOAL OF **5,000**: 0 | null | 0 | 1319659500 | False | 0 | c2uorj3 | t3_lpxv1 | null | t1_c2uorj3 | t3_lpxv1 | null | 1427787203 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NotCoffeeTable | null | Another reason people might not like Perl is because its defenders get bitchy about whether it's an acronym (Practical Extraction and Report Language) or proper noun Gospel of Matthew -> Selling everything for a pretty pearl -> Pearl -> Perl. Instead of creating helpful resources. | null | 0 | 1319659609 | True | 0 | c2uos8s | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uos8s | t1_c2uom88 | null | 1427787210 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sure they could but they won't and most of the problem is actually more the openness of the documentation and getting loads of people commenting on pages with very bad information. They either have to invest in good moderation or anger a lot of people and turn that off and possibly write more documentation themselves.
... | null | 0 | 1319659722 | False | 0 | c2uosyk | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uosyk | t1_c2uns2o | null | 1427787221 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | It's not meaningless, because
> You get the advantage of (optional) flexibility and power on top [of the shell]
For instance, I've written [a tool](https://github.com/xiongchiamiov/ticket/blob/master/ticket.py) that allows me to do some fancy screen/git integration while working inside a git-svn checkout. I do thi... | null | 0 | 1319659730 | False | 0 | c2uot07 | t3_lobf3 | null | t1_c2uot07 | t1_c2unmug | null | 1427787221 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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