virtualsue
Joined 14 years ago
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Comment · 3 years ago
Such sad news! Condolences to his family, friends and thousands of admirers worldwide. One way to commemorate his life is to donate to the charityware cause he championed: https://www.iccf-holland.org
Comment · 6 years ago
With any luck Perl 7 with phase out the archaic linenoise features. This is overdue IMO.
Comment · 8 years ago
Nice. Coincidentally, I saw a talk about Jupyter @ FOSDEM earlier this year, this time with Perl 6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZV8IXIsM4). I had no knowledge of it prior to that point, and I really should come up with a good reason to use it.
Comment · 8 years ago
Likewise, I had a brief conversation with the fascinating Dr Lewis Dartnell where we discussed the origin of barley farming. Did our ancestors grow it for food, and accidentally discover that you can also make beer with it, or did the beer come first and bread second? I had assumed the former, but now that I think about it...
Comment · 8 years ago
It was a decision made by Larry Wall alone.Since it’s his language, he’s allowed to do that.
Comment · 10 years ago
Since they appear to plan on running an uber/lyft style service with self-driving tech, and they believe that their tech is especially likely to give them an advantage in that business, that would be one big reason.
Comment · 10 years ago
...bearing in mind that Tesla AFAIAA is supposed to be selling more moderately priced cars in the near future