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> the "heads down, working" nature That's the same way the Perl 5 community is often described. I don't know CL, but it would be interesting to read a comparison of Perl 5 & CL.

I hope it continues to work. I don't like reading on my monitor, and generally buy the printed book even when a free pdf is available.

The thing about readability of Perl vs. Python ... I dunno. I don't think it's the syntax itself that causes Perl to have some readability issues. Stuff like `$foo =~ s/bar/baz/g` …

In the US, very infrequently does anyone ask anyone else who they're voting for. In fact, talking about politics can very quickly turn into a nasty argument. You're also correct ab…

I'd suggest that well-chosen defaults means: Make a pretty good guess at the most common usage patterns you expect most of your users to follow, and have your defaults do that by d…

A complaint I regularly hear is that it's user interface is frought with peril (and has some poorly-chosen defaults).

Nothing odd about that. Lots of people use separate accounts for anonymous vs. publicly-identifiable comments.

With the job market the way it is, you might consider advertising in more populated areas (like MA and CT) targetting people who might relocate for the right position.

Looks like a great tutorial. Covers a lot of ground that others don't (such as the star command, windowing commands, ctags use, etc.). Vim certainly has a lot of ninja editing move…

If you have more data than, say, GDBM, can swallow in one bite, how could you break this data apart and then find the right chunk amongst multiple servers when given a key? Also, w…

The author writes: > Scheme comes with too little in the language to use easily for much beyond teaching programming. This commonly-cited reason seems to ignore implementations tha…

Long article. Would've liked to see video clips showing, "walk like this", and, "instead of this".

> Will Perl 6 be able to turn things around, or is it too late? Community plays a large role here, I think. The Perl community (both 5 and 6) overall has a practical can-do attitud…

Some unsubstantiated ravings: * Everyone I've encountered online who has used both Perl 5 and Perl 6 says that they like Perl 6 (the language) better. * This first Rakudo Star rele…

One thing is that Perl 5 doesn't include by default a number of modern features that Python and Ruby have OOTB. Easy OOP, exceptions, and named function args, to name a few. If you…

It's slowly looking like my webapp should probably instead be a desktop app that talks in the background to a central server. I say this because it needs features like a webapp (lo…

Python's alright, but it made me work too hard for what it does. I tried hard to like it but using Python for writing scripts I was constantly asking it, "why are you making me do …

Actually melling, thanks for calling me on that. Thinking more about it, I think Perl 6 actually has 2 sides: one is the "like Perl 5 but with a number of things improved/cleaned-u…

> I'm not sure what you mean by equivalent ... It means that for basic stuff they are pretty much the same. Variables & data structures (scalars, arrays, mappings), creating and ca…

What OS do Nokia phones run (Symbian, Maemo, or something else?)? What language and toolkit do I use? Is it locked-down, or can I load apps on to my phone (or my friend's phone) th…

Thank you.

> Have you read SICP? I'm still in chapter 1. Thanks for the explanation of the single quote. Can I convince you to add something about what a "symbol" is (and if it's connected in…

> In my experience, recursion is the hard part ... My limited experience has been different. I've been trying to make time to learn Scheme lately, and recursion seems simple enough…

Not laughing -- nothing wrong with getting mental help. Foot doctors, heart doctors, brain doctors; they all help fix you up if there's a problem. If you haven't talked to a profes…

> There's a lot of CPAN activity, but my impression is that a lot of it seems confined to only a handful of problem domains. You can see a list of recent uploads here: http://www.c…