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Wow. A five-paragraph I-hate-Perl rant by someone who obviously neither knows the language nor wants to.

Though I probably wouldn't recommend Perl as a first language for everybody either, that's some pretty weak arguments. Appeal to authority of other Perl haters only proves Perl haters exist.

For crying out loud, Perl doesn't have exposed pointers. Perl doesn't prevent the programmer from doing basic parameter checking in functions. Decent REPLs are available for Perl. How could "the Perl REPL" not work with readline if he just said there wasn't a Perl REPL in the previous sentence? Perl doesn't have the same opinion as him as to what sane typing is. Doing stupid stuff results in undefined (to him, at least) behavior. It's possible to implement action-at-a-distance in Perl.

Python and Ruby have their warts too, they're just not exposed in this thread because there's no hater around to quote out-of-context lists of surprising behavior.

Arguing not to learn Perl because the average Perl out there is ugly? Non sequitur. No one with an open mind blah blah blah? I've got opposing data points. (not to mention the true scotsman)

Particularly ironic to quote that MJD text from almost twelve years ago. All of the behavior he described, I can now mostly observe from Python self-appointed champions.

And now on HN as well.

(I'm not saying you have to use Perl. I'm just saying dismissing it for the "reasons" listed in parent post doesn't make sense.)

REST's protocol is not HTTP. Quoting the very page you linked:

> REST was initially described in the context of HTTP, but it is not limited to that protocol.

How would the sniper be supposed to distinguish the robber from the owner?

FWIW, it makes sense in French, though the canonical acronym in France is actually SARL.

See there: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754747

Note that the French language officially shortens "messieurs" as "MM."

Sources, details or IANAL please?

I'd feel ok telling the US borders I've got a special laptop just for them.

Nice coincidence, I spent part of my weekend hacking on an Unlambda FizzBuzz.

Switzerland is not an EU state.

Sure, but there's no "Rest of World" option in that poll.

> but also that it paid well (from the perspective of an undergrad).

The page you link to clearly says: "Donors never pay for donating, and are never paid to donate."

Is your story missing something?

A PBSC-based donation is preceded by a few day's worth of treatment to activate the bones' BSC reproduction, so that they're numerous enough to outgrow the bones and actually become "peripheral". So they're really taking away cells that you usually don't have with you.

That fear is natural, and the reason why the various bone marrow organizations have all sorts of available brochures and web pages available.

For a first hand account: I've donated bone marrow by peripheral blood stem cell extraction, and it's mostly painless. I'd do it again any day (except I'm not allowed to by my country's organization's policy, but that's another problem). A colleague of mine donated by needle extraction, and didn't report anything traumatic.

Indeed you get a pretty sweet deal, and I know a few that do.

But the R&D benefits aren't only for startups, most big companies try to fit all they can under CIR ("Crédit d'impôt recherche"—research tax exemption).

For fiscal reasons.

Adding boarding doors costs money too.

I don't think it is.

Your politician's college was a long time ago, he as a man would have had time to change. The article's mistakes are right now; there's little reason to believe the sloppy fact checking improves right between the first paragraph and the second.

Here's a quick "complaint" feedback about the signup process, then: don't erase my strong password I took 15s to type in (twice) if you reject my invitation code and I have to find another one. It's a strong incitation to use a weak but easy-to-type password instead.

(not really a problem to me just yet, but it resonates wrong with the password strength warning on the same page)

Same here.

Screenshot, pretty please?

What does 'I only went "full Trump" once on an employee.' mean?

    main=print n
    n=42

In C or Python, this would print 0 or undef or some random contents. In Haskell, it prints 42. The "assignment" reaches back to instructions before itself. Which ought to hint it's not really an assignment in the (my) usual sense of the word.

To me, the argument to convince oneself that Haskell's = "assigmnent" is not the same beast as C's and Python's is the following: the binding it defines is also valid in code before it.

    (echo;cat)|msmtp

But yeah, stackoverflow.com

Polish has the great advantage of being highly regular: you learn a few rules, you shape your mouth innards the right way, and you can read out anything.

Compare that to french, chinese or english...

The JPEG analogy doesn't hold water. The JPEG is a lossy reproduction of the original painting. But following that path, the lossier reproduction of the author's ideas is not the e-book: it's still the paper one.

(I still do agree with your naïve price model)

It used to be an ad box. Not sure why it's currently white.

They're not evil. Just the root of it.

I haven't lived in (or been to, for that matter) the US for twenty years, but still...

I remembered the dollar coin as George Washington, silvery, larger than all others. And quite uncommon, especially compared to the dollar bill. Still really not something you'd confuse with quarters. Has it changed that much?

And what are those feminism attempts you seem to refer to?