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How do you discover problems that regular people have? Especially because what most businesses actually do on a daily basis, and what annoying problems they have, is totally invisi…

Perl is explicitly postmodern. Here's Larry Wall explaining it: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

Thanks! I vaguely remembered there being some problems with that, but playing around with it, it works fine and as I'd expect. Sweet! Gotta revisit CL soon then.

How does static type checking work in CL? One of the most important use cases for static typing is safe modification of existing code, like during refactoring. So a typical example…

How does PHP have dynamic scope? It's been ages since I touched it, but if I remember right... Global is just a flat namespace. Functions have their own, separate flat namespace ea…

What languages without lexical scope are you thinking of? Aside from literally only (pre-Common and Emacs) Lisp, I can't think of any language without lexical scope (outside some c…

Which ones?