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May I suggest you give https://github.com/jawher/mow.cli a look/try ? Disclaimer: I'm the author of mow.cli ;)

Thanks for citing mow.cli [1] and glad you're liking it! And you are spot-on regarding closures: it was a design choice made expressly for the purpose of being able to: - scope com…

docopt() does few things and does them well: * parse the call arguments and split them into options and arguments * perform a very basic validation, i.e. handle the options which t…

Parser combinators would certainly have been easier for me, the library author but not necessarily so for the end user. Contrast how it is done now: [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] …

> Nice hand-waving of an argument, by throwing a useless Wikipedia link in there as some kind of appeal to authority No need to get agressive over this :) I disagreed with your fir…

> The JVM, at its core, is not working with static types. The bytecode itself is free of static types, except for when you want to invoke a method, in which case you need a concret…

> BUT that is happy to let you write a Windows program or a Mac program or a Linux program if that's what you want. Care to explain the last bit ? Because Java also lets you invoke…

Is it just me or does anybody else think that polluting your code with debugging and logging informations is not such a good idea ? I understand the value of these informations, bu…

> Maven is a bad dependency/package manager because of the complicated nuance What nuance ? >XML Fair point. I don't know what they were thinking when they decided not to use attri…

Can't you take te same approach ClojureScript took, i.e. to generate a straitforward translation to JavaScript, and then let Google's closure compiler take care of the optimizing t…

While I share your enthusiasm, I'd like to point out some problems with "Sending rovers to all the planets": 4 of them are gaseous giants, literally no solid ground to land on. Ven…

That depends on what kind of products you make: If it's a website, then you have absolute control over what stack and database to use. But if you're selling any kind of app that ne…

It's not just the SQL. There's also the mapping code between your objects and the SQL. for instance, for a select query: select first_name, last_name, login, email from users where…

> This doesn't seem like an insoluble problem; rather than use an ORM to generate an impenetrable glue layer, it would be better to use code generation tools to create a clean data…

It depends on the ORM you use, but I'm afraid it's not as simple as "you can later hand write SQL queries to speed things up". This will interact badly with the ORM's cache/transac…

> The structural change is regular. That is you don't have to learn each name plural. Not all the time. And if they do, there still are subtle variations in suffixes. For example: …

The answer to your first question is yes, a lambda is always assigned to a SAM type. As to your second question, yes, you can cast a lambda to explicitly specify it's target SAM ty…

Even Java has the Void type, meaning you can write: Function It's a bit shady though as you still have to return a value from the body of the method, and that value has to be null.…

To the best of my understanding, lambdas-as-objects would mean providing structural types, i.e. generic function types that are able to describe the structure of a lambda (argument…

On why you might not want to mix your markup with the templating logic (copied from a blog post I wrote a while back [1]): - Designers and developers will have a hard time working …

There is also http://www.goodreads.com/ , a feature packed (maybe too much) and a generic (as in not tied to any reading app/device/mode) ... how shall I put it? reading management…

Beating the averages: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Thanks !

Genuine question: What does Sencha (a JS UI lib) have to do with Edge (an IDE) ?