jibalt

Not to take anything away from his acting, but Patrick Stewart was not the author of his dialogue in TNG.

P.S. Slippery slope is a fallacy.

But elsif

w TAB in a properly configured emacs

`destroy_world() if $angry;` is Perl syntax. And Python has `destroy_word() if angry else live_long_and_prosper()`.

(But it's not remotely like come-from.)

P.S. in re the other response, "unless" is "if not". "until" is "while not".

`unless` came from Perl, Ruby adopted it, and so of course did Crystal.

I think the headline is nonsense.

I was going to mention the MAD language by Bernard Galler et. al. that used whenever/otherwise, which I encountered in a book in the local library back in the days when everyone was coming up with "structured" programming languages, but then I scrolled to the bottom of the article ...

It told you exactly what to do.

> By the early 1960s, programmers with interactive computers could use a “line editor” to type their code on teletypes

That's quite a condition ... very few of us had access to interactive computers -- punch cards still ruled for another decade.

> what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from

Look it up ... there isn't one.

Too much teleology.

No, they didn't make anything sound remotely like that.

Comments aren't users. Commenters are statistically biased toward complaints.

That's quite a strawman.