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It's a bit of an in-joke at this point (but PHP could really be a better language).

Unfortunately, it seems to have been.

I try to refrain from bragging, but the feeling of victory isn't as sweet if nobody knows about it. http://imgur.com/d6uDadO

I didn't read the paper, and this seems like a no brainer, so it is probably addressed therein. However, the article didn't mention it, so I feel like I should bring it up. Assumin…

Using clones to extend one's life is a similar theme in the book The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Scorpion

Is Javascript's const head-const or tail-const?

I believe the D language and Rust both support this kind of model, where functions can be optionally pure, and data optionally immutable. They are both C-like as well, though D see…

>...I've never seen a bug in production that could have been prevented with static analysis That's because they're hidden by the lack of static analysis. They're just waiting for t…

Where is the social justice crowd when there's real sexism afoot?

Smalltalk is many things, but I don't think it can be considered fast. As for CLISP, it has 50 years of performance optimzations behind it. CLISP programmers can actually mix compi…

> Exceptions are horrible if you're trying to make a fast, dependable, reliable, low-level, concurrent modern day programming language, as Go is. Go is in no way "low-level", and i…

In English, sure. Not so for Chinese.

I'd say it's closer to subtyping.

I wonder if this means that in the internet age, where there is an endless stream of new information, we are experiencing the passage of time far slower than previous generations.

Important to note is that Lorem Ipsum is not correct Latin, and many words have been removed or changed slightly, such as "adipiscing", which is not a real Latin word.

Javascript is inherently dis -functional (hehe) as it relies heavily on mutation and side-effects, rather than immutability and functional purity. First-class functions do not mean…

Exceptions can be used in strategic places to ensure that a value returned can never be null. Ex: public Person findPerson(String name) { for (Person p : personList) { if (p.getNam…

I'd agree with you, but as you know we have universal health care in Canada which is funded by the government. Therefore, what people do with their body is actually the taxpayers' …

I would say that they're still smaller than C++, which has syntactical and semantic corners that very few people even know about.

Are we programmers or children? This type of behaviour is completely unprofessional. If I were one of these "investors" that the author was demoing to and saw that this is how he c…

"[Javascript] is functional. Really." I don't really agree; just because a language has first-class functions and closures, that doesn't make it a functional language. Sure, you ca…