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What have they done since to repair their image?

Some people lack the emotional maturity and respect for other human beings.

After having done Scala for a few years, it's finally a pleasure to be able to read and understand a thread like this.

FP gains are real. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know what FP is.

To anyone out there who isn't on the FP train yet, get on. You'll become a better programmer for it.

You should totally do it. You can do it from the comfort of your own home now.

Sorry, dog. Gonna need a markup mode.

Completely agree. It's like engineers consistently fail to recognize that users generally don't care about the internals. If it doesn't LOOK like FB why use it?

I want to see "The Most Important Programming Skills for Non-Programmers"

No incentive, I guess, is the explanation for any stagnant system.

This is the new MySpace.

If you value your mental health and your earning potential, you'll avoid Perl.

So many better languages with better mental models. And I say this with a decade of Perl experience.

Don't suffer from the blub paradox.

A loss of local reasoning. You don't know which functions will touch the variable and when.

You might know at a high level on paper, but you won't have clean, easy-to-read and easy-to-predict life times. Then you'll have race conditions.

Poorly written headline.

More moderation. More value judgements (and actions) need to be taken against content that is deemed unsavory. Bans, etc.

Higher barriers of entry. The right to comment and occupy mind space is given away too easily. Penalize new accounts, start with limited capabilities, disallow short comments, etc.

Highlight exemplary content.

I would love an online forum with aggressive verification. It would really weed out the noise.

That's not misleading if it's literally true.