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Or maybe the takeaway is that most things fail and cherrypicking the times they didn't isn't a real argument
Re:Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:43PM (#14916566)
In my experience, the hardest part about reading Forth is recognizing when a word doesn't use RPN because of metaprogramming
Re:Why I’m Learning Perl 6 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:04PM (#14860788)
Depending on your exact use case, Forth might be one
Re:The slow death of the electric guitar on Sunday June 25, 2017 @12:43PM (#14630857)
I was under the impression that they meant it was good for you because training your ear like that is really good for a musician
Re:Why is the Internet so Slow? on Friday June 23, 2017 @06:28PM (#14623239)
Key word "finding". Most large software has plenty of bugs, CVE's just tell you how many they're aware of
Re:4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys on Saturday June 03, 2017 @12:18AM (#14474987)
To be fair I think the misogyny was satirical
Re:4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:49PM (#14472395)
I'm surprised that Flatland[0] wasn't mentioned in this

[0]http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/201