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"Foobar inc., Portugal's leading provider of accounting software in the $50-$100 range marketed toward shipping companies".

The title sounds randomly generated.

What? You say that software with tests is more reliable, and then give an example of reliable software without tests.

I can't stop myself from reading it like free verse because of the line breaks :|

Classic game theory: it's (supposedly) a net benefit for everyone to watch TV, but for any given person it's a net loss.

I wonder what a language with a three character Fibonacci sequence would be like. You'd probably need Unicode, if the language wasn't specifically designed for the Fibonacci sequen…

This is a paragon of obfuscatory buzz-speak.

There's a chicken and egg thing here...

I don't care which language is popular, I want to know what makes a language popular. I try to choose languages orthogonally to popularity.

I wonder if perl would be less popular if it was a better language.

java cobol c++ fortran basic pascal php

Secret Newton Killer? Einstein?

I just scared the hell out of my neighbors. :)

There's no language called "Indian". They speak Hindi and English in India.

I use a really similar wm called Awesome (written in C and Lua), but I might switch once I grok haskell more.

Yep, total old boys club; you only get in from reference counting. When will women be able to mark and sweep?

This is very dubious (proving the opposite is easier), but it was quite a lot of fun.

...Man, Clojure seems to have just about everything from every language ever.

I like Lisp too, but there's nothing especially accurate about it's arithmetic that you can't get in other civilized languages.

Smalltalk would be trivial to model with s-exps: (object message args)

I think you need laziness to be a little more prevalent than that before it makes a difference. Haskell's super-concise Fibonacci sequence illustrates that: let fib = 1 : 1 : zipWi…

This question would be the length of a book if I had to define those words. Any hostility you detected was imagined. I was only pondering if a language in a certain style could be …

Could a language with S-expressions, macros, first-class functions, and a REPL cater to average programmers and be despised by hackers? How could you cripple these things?

http://utilitymill.com/utility/MetaUtility Just about the same thing for Python. It would probably be trivial to write another one like _why's with Rails, though