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I think thats just to warn vista/7 users that it doesn't effect them.

I believe the .net versions of both scala and clojure are rarely used and not a main focus.

"And people are fleeing Java in droves. " -evidence needed.

"Tablets are a much more useable form factor in classrooms, etc." why?

Java/C# are different in that they compile to a bytecode which is like vm assembly its also not meant as a high level programming language(note that this isn't always compiled to a…

"Converting programming languages really doesn't serve any purpose whatsoever" Compilers are useful. This probably won't reach production quality but that doesn't mean it couldn't …

Try http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ (note I used it with cdt and had trouble with dark color themes making some elements nearly invisible) but other then that its sorta nice

Something that legally prohibits this falls outside the definition of open source. Dual licensing with part of it not available as open source can fulfill your need although many i…

Doesn't happen except by all the time by primarily open source companies.

I think this is what android does, isn't it. Although android doesn't use x.

reference counting is slower* then other forms of gc. My guess why its fairly fast in c++ has a lot to do whith how much you can avoid it by allocating things on the stack(of cours…

I thought the key was not managing mutable state. Sharing lots of immutable data can probably shave a lot of performance over ipc.

and opera and a few open source web browsers nobody uses.

As compared to ? Python is very popular.

It doesn't work quite the same way but krunner is also quite nice.

You could do something ala n900.

I believe smalltalk block are BlockClosure objects that can be passed around like any other parameter.

jobs? especially in the computer industry.

Not for us ex-nokia fans.

I think you are greatly understimate how great less relevant ads are. Much less data/less identifying data gathered -> slightly less relevant ads and a huge win fore everyone. Not …

I thought 2.6 was suppose to be the stable release.

Is there a similar one for linux?

Yes but some of the examples of obj-c I've seen look ridiculously wordy compared with the smalltalk equivalents (even if you ignore op overloading). (setObject: forKey:) vs (at: pu…

Am I the only one who doubts a lot of the magical usability of touch interfaces?

I was thinking he was talking about (mostly?) immutable data structures.