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Hakka's most obvious archaic feature is the syllable-final stops, as in Yue/Cantonese and Min. I know Yue dissimilated some of them (details fuzzy in my memory, possibly -t went to…

Parrot did burn through quite a few pumpkings. I wouldn't call them clowns either, but I do think they led Parrot astray. Obviously Parrot is not Perl 6, but they are closely linke…

How nice! Usually their malfeasance goes the other way round.

This badly understates the Chernobyl response. They did remove the heavily contaminated surface soil from the immediate vicinity and clean up the rest of the site so they could con…

There is so much visual processing machinery in the retina that some neuroscientists describe it as an outpost of the visual cortex. In that sense, scarring your retina might indee…

Related to this: Brent Kerby and Billy Tanksley devise flat, two-combinator bases for Turing-complete concatenative languages. Kerby's is at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/con…

The ball of the foot is doing the pushing at that point, and the ball of the foot finishes the liftoff. Try and take a few steps where the ball leaves the ground before the heel, y…

The story you're telling is accurate for cocaine and amphetamines. Caffeine is different. It blocks the adenosine receptors, which are supposed to slow you down before you wear out…

Cute snake oil, but you might want to peddle it somewhere other than Hacker News. People here place too much importance on facts and knowledge to really go for this stuff. > The hu…

I'm with you on the books. I tried to learn Perl 5 from online resources, couldn't. Once I had books in hand, no problem. The good news for Perl 6 is that books are incoming. O'Rei…

I already spent the hours, so here's a short summary: * Perl 6 is a specification in the form of a test suite. By metonymy, the language it specifies and any implementation that pa…

I studied what people said, at the time they decided, about what they decided and why, and I studied the environment in which they decided it. I'm not sure how that adds up to buyi…

I didn't say Larry wasn't keen on a multi-language VM in 2003.[1] I said that Parrot's pursuit of that goal contributed to (an intricately braided series of) technical and politica…

A little of each, and technically neither. Parrot isn't wholly abandoned, but Reini Urban is the only person still hacking on it. On the other hand, he is the person most likely to…