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Hm, now I guess you better just delete your article. 1.410 IS 1.41, isn't it. Or am I missing something.

I wasn't aware of this. This looks like a bad design choice indeed. I hate when libraries convert stuff implicitly for you. html5's localStorage has a similar problem. Only, it con…

Doesn't seem to work on ipad

I don't understand this fixation on js either. Even more, i don't understand the fixation on html, css and all so called web technologies. Common, web was never designed for the so…

I find metaclasses philosophically unsound. If one introduces metaclasses, what about meta-metaclasses, meta-meta-metaclasses. In this regard Self's prototypical oop seems more coh…

If I'm not mistaken the authors of Smalltalk realized that metaclasses were a mistake long before they appeared in Python. Yet they were added to Python anyway.

php is not unique in having big memory footprint. AFAIC Python and Ruby are also memory hogs. An interesting question is how memory efficient a dynamic PL can be. Given that in mod…