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No one can down-vote posts, but posts that require attention (moderator related?) can be flagged to indicate that the link is to something that is outright bad (spam, inflamatory content, false information etc) and if it gets flagged by a lot of people it falls down the front page.

There's probably something else I don't know about the ranking algorithm though.

The article says that having the syntax is not a bad thing but doesn't really say what it has over LISP's simple syntax, expressiveness? easy to read for people unfamiliar with the language? AFAIK the one thing it definitely allows is to be able to write a program and common tasks in just a few characters, which is great and all but not the strength of perl and definitely not needed in all situations.

LISP syntax OTOH is as he said easy to pick up and parse while still allowing all the expressiveness any other language can have (even without more syntax like the lambda character).

But there is a similarity between the two, the outstanding syntax. I don't know about others but I'd attribute it to C's popularity more than anything else and with most other languages following it (JS, C++...) it seems like it should be standard or something, I've seen far too many people avoid learning languages due to syntax without realizing something much more important: They might be turning down a language that can save them tons of trouble later if they just get past the one time step of learning the syntax, so listen to the author, perl is a great CGI language, and if that's what you need just learn it. other languages may be easier to learn, may be what's hip now but I'd bet perl is still better.

I use firefox with a lot of tabs too, a few things I do are

* if you haven't used it yet look at the barTab lite x addon,

* I also try to use RSS readers for sites I regularly visit

* I use Clearly (I don't know if it's as good as readability but it also allows me to clip to evernote)

Mostly, when submitting a post I refrain from changing the original title but I thought "How zsh is more useful than bash" would be better than the original. BTW I'd probably feel the same way too but the deck seems to be well received

I had just switched to zsh and found your deck when searching for something like "zsh features", I thought "hey this is great for starting out with zsh and maybe a good post for HN". Thank you for releasing it for everyone to see.