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Comment · 12 years ago
So would a ridiculously slow PHP framework be an example of why we don't code serious web apps with PHP?
Comment · 12 years ago
It depends. It's not like there's no safe way of using strcpy and sprintf.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's not (strictly) C, though.
Comment · 12 years ago
C99 compiler won't do, it also requires a GCC extension (statement expressions).
Comment · 12 years ago
Too serious, too serious. I like the best the version in which each participant starts with a can of beverage in one hand and has to finish it before pulling with both hands.
Comment · 12 years ago
I disagree. Even in 2014 we have a place for different kinds of new languages. If we didn't, the likes of C++ would live forever with all their shortcomings.
Comment · 12 years ago
I wonder if there's a (simple syntactical) way to unlink the constness of unique pointers and their targets. It's not a huge obstruction, but seems like an unnecessary restriction not found in the near-equivalent C++ construction.
Comment · 12 years ago
Open sourcing is never the end of a good product.
Comment · 12 years ago
Perhaps we will. I strongly doubt any of those will be even a slight success, unless released by the Atom team (which the copyleft license wouldn't affect).
Comment · 12 years ago
They don't have VAT in the US, and their sales tax is a bit different. I'm not sure if it applies to digital purchases.

However, the price difference is often larger than what taxes alone would suggest, but surely localization plays a part here. Still, many European countries would need a reduced price just like the developing countries (to a lesser extent) to have an equal purchasing power compared to the US.

Comment · 12 years ago
The only reason for midnight being a falsy value that I can think of is that someone thought that all objects should provide some functionality for __nonzero__/__bool__.

It was a bad idea.

Comment · 12 years ago
Well, I use spaces for marking whitespace in many cases. Just not for indenting, that's what tabs are for :).
Comment · 12 years ago
Just use a capable editor. It's 2014, for heaven's sake!
Comment · 12 years ago
It's not like it runs Linux now, is it? ;)

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