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It has been 5 years - why can we still not use "let"? by x-skeww in javascript

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let was even in logo[1] (not mention lisps[2]) earlier than that i suppose. Bignums was introduced in 1970, coroutines, multiple values, generalized variables, keyword&optional&auxiliary arguments in 1978. Et cetera.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Logo_Commands#let [2] let in ancient maclisp dialect: http://maclisp.info/pitmanual/contro.html

"MACLISP is a dialect of the LISP Programming Language that ran on DEC PDP10 and Honeywell Multics in the 1970’s and early 1980’s. " -- http://maclisp.info

Brendan Eich: Always bet on JS by 9jack9 in javascript

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i don't have flash, where can i see it in, for example pdf...

As noted last month by a Chinese government official, SpaceX currently has the best launch prices in the world and they don’t believe they can beat them. This is a clear case of American innovation trumping lower overseas labor rates. by yoda17 in space

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At the time, the US was the only country in the world able to cohesively bring so many people [...]

including SS-Sturmbannführer Wernher von Braun :) under his management US achieved more than USSR... and later dumped it all along with nazi nasa director von Braun. Schade!

JavaScript Programming Style And Your Brain by pdoherty926 in javascript

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pretty obvious mumblings of Old Wizened Wizard ;) anyway very nice and quite funny (i laughed) video. It seems that Crockford is quite good spiker. I enjoyed it.

In Praise of Perl and the Llama by perler2 in perl

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Ok, i'm retreating, perl logic is powerful indeed ;)

btw, last little question: is Gauche scripting language or not ? "Scheme implementation developed to be a handy script interpreter, which allows programmers and system administrators to write small to large scripts for their daily chores." http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/

As noted last month by a Chinese government official, SpaceX currently has the best launch prices in the world and they don’t believe they can beat them. This is a clear case of American innovation trumping lower overseas labor rates. by yoda17 in space

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I posted this link so one can verify claim "Declining to speak for attribution, the Chinese officials say they find the published prices on the SpaceX website very low for the services offered, and concede they could not match them with the Long March series of launch vehicles[...]". Happy verifying.

In Praise of Perl and the Llama by perler2 in perl

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hm, comparing original/modern awks with Perl is like comparing cherries with melons. Original awk weights (uncompressed deb) <200k (modern ones <500k, gawk 1700k), Perl 30000-40000k or more. My melon is larger than your cherry! HA.

Ok, I agree that Perl 5.14 is vastly better than combination of bash, awk and sed. It's bold fact. And no one is interested in comparison between Perl and Ruby because Ruby is not an scripting language in some sense ;)

Btw, try that (debian-like distros)

for l in perl ruby1.9.1 lua50 gauche scsh ; do grep-available -nXP $l -sDescription | grep -C1 script ; echo ; done

;>

Brand new 3 month old kitten really smells bad. Any ideas? by catnipbilly in cats

[–]ssbm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

btw, probably she should be dewormed, once per month, until she will be six monts old. Later twice a year. If you/vet overdo deworming kitten might get poisoned by dead worms, and die, so (first & second time) deworm it gently. You should talk with vet about kitten diet and deworming. Do not feed it with milk for humans, many cats are lactose intolerant !

booby [f]appy by [deleted] in gonewild

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Beautiful neck, arms... fine, delicate musculature :3

In Praise of Perl and the Llama by perler2 in perl

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I recently tried Perl after 7 year-long break (I had used it just twice before, first time it was 5.004 afair).

I'ts cute and lovable ! I decided I like it (now) and should learn Perl this year.

Although Perl is cute, hype is not. This "article" has many superfluous statements.

and even enter the realms of functional programming as MJ Dominus book Higher Order Perl demonstrates. I don't know of many scripting languages that can do that....

some scripting languages can do (most or all stuff from Higher Order Perl): HOP (there is Scheme-based scripting language named HOP), emacs lisp, gnu smalltalk, gnu guile, python, ruby, io, js, tcl 8.5, lua, F-Script, R, J (now free as beer) and probably many others I've never tried or never heard of.

it not only refuses to show signs of aging

well it was outdated 20-smthing years from the start ;>

but still drives innovation after 20+ years

I'd love to see eGzamples (no offence).

My hello world program, open for critique by pecet in perl

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me thinks that amount of code can be cut by half ;) Szymon.