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A vibrator has a pretty good form factor for insertion into a loaf of bread =)

.oO( a breadbox with speakers inside it to keep bread fresh )

Exactly. It's funny how commenters keep clinging to Erlang as if I said it was purely functional, when I'm actually talking about writing purely functional Perl (and to the extent …

That's exactly why I wrote Crypt::Util... Generating, and worse, transferring a nonce is annoying each time, so Crypt::Util just generates one unless explicitly told not to, and in…

You don't get multiple CPUs with ruby and python either. By overriding the IO handling you can interleave IO (including DBI for drizzle and postgres). You can interact with a norma…

Perl has cooperative threads mapped to a single posix thread with Coro. Python and Ruby both have preemptive threads on top of posix threads. A mutex ensures only one posix thread …

This list is incredibly convoluted and redundant. Memorizing 4 variants of the perfection loop, which really isn't a general purpose knot is just plain silly. Wikipedia is a much b…

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THE SOVIET YC IS DELETING ARTICLES!!!! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776782 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776111 This is very anti free market!

plz delete

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http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/recur/recur.pdf

Interestingly, C suffers from a somewhat similar ambiguity, where not the results of runtime-at-compile-time but rather type definitions affect the parsing. http://calculist.blogsp…

There's nothing preventing symbol table modifications done by Perl modules at compile time to be reified into some sort of linkage unit, with which a parser could then statically p…

the delimitation is not for data (that is closed over like any normal closure), it's for control. when you apply a reified delimited continuation as a function it returns a value t…

can you please point to a real example of code like this? just because a pathological case is possible, doesn't mean that it's actually common, or even existent.

this is solved ore cleanly with escape continuation/exceptions. Perl also provides 'last LABEL', which is handy (lets you break out of any level of nesting). I guess in a language …

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