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COBOL has an even longer history processing business and financial data. Perhaps COBOL is the secret sauce that hedge funds use for high frequency trading?

Organizations which truly support Bitcoin would choose to spend it, not hoard it.

> But Perl 6 has effectively killed Perl. Oh fuck off, no one has been confused/concerned about the 5 vs 6 version numbering thing for at least 10 years. 5 is production, 6 is wher…

Maybe you just weren't a good enough programmer for Perl?

As opposed to Perl, which was designed as a web framework language?

I can't help but feel bad for people who worry about this kind of thing.

Sorry but that is a very short list for anyone coming from a better established language.

> flagrant reinvention of the standard library That's b/c the C++ standard library (or its implementation among various compilers) was terrible 13 years ago when Qt 3 was released.…

Not directly answering your question, but: ZeroMQ is a network programming library that uses and encourages the use of "patterns". Take a look at the (excellent) ZeroMQ manual.