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Wow, I always suspected that our industry was rife with narcissism (I'm a cynic by nature), but these results are astonishing.

... until you start relying on it. Then Google will shut it down. No way I'm using any more Google products except the one I pay for (mail).

The word you're looking for is 'ecumenism'. :)

You can build cons-lists or other initial-algebraic data-types with them very nicely. I <3 them.

Need a conjunction option: with my 3.0 & go from a state school I'd never be hired there, but conversely, until they start putting all that brainpower to work doing something besid…

Add fexprs and a system F-based type system to lisp/scheme, and I might just go there...

My dad is a nuke engineer (studied under Rickover) who hires bomb designers -- he maintains that the physics behind building a bomb is simple and easy, and far from classified. Wha…

I agree that the article's not too great -- I think that the big bang-for-the-buck for most of these features (except closures) will do is make for much cleaner, more streamlined l…

I just now created an account here just now so I'd have the opportunity to tell y'all that Oleg's a freakin' god. He's up there with sigpfe, Wadler & Peyton-Jones -- he's one of th…