C is so far from the processor, it's not funny any more. Not only do compilers have macros and optimizations that completely mutate the code, but CPUs have their own virtual stack (and cache) in between that shuffles things every which way but right. And in between, you have operating systems that abstract everything from memory management to scheduling. Long gone are the days when C got anywhere near the "bare metal".

TCL is still way more popular than every variety of Lisp combined.

Are you saying "divs" (dividers) are for layout? And "b" (bold) tags? Maybe you don't know English, but what do you think the word "table" means? Is there even such a thing as tabular semantics?

login permissions aren't ANSI SQL, socket connections aren't ANSI SQL, character sets aren't ANSI SQL. There is a lot to a database that isn't covered in the ANSI SQL spec.

Since when do judges get to decide who can be prosecuted? The case may be unfounded, but this complete corruption of the legal system is rediculous.

That is entangled with the government? Actually, it's much worse everywhere else. The French television network is no doubt tied much more explicitly to the government than any in the in the USA (besides PBS). And most places (like Great Britain) really only have 1 government owned and operated broadcast system. Actually, there has been a limited amount of private television operations in Britain (only in the last 15 years), but they're are still strongly controlled by the government much more so than the FCC in America.

Name one atheist who has ever been demonized in America, or inhibited (even dissuaded) from expressing his religious (non)belief? Not Richard Dawkins or Clarence Darrow or anyone in between.

The government implicitly runs most business in France. And most people in government are from a small, mostly hereditary, clique. It'll soon be much worse in America.

Don't get me wrong, I love perl, and I love your work. But I don't like U2 anymore and I've given up on Parrot. There've been bigger fools and more vocal than me, but few of them as aware of it.

So if practical usability is targeted for 12.0, then we'll have another 6 years to wait, if everything goes well?

what makes you think it's not still just a prank?

Quoting post-wash-up lyrics from a long since irrelevant band is symbolic.

Microsoft and it's employees *are* the community. Believe it or not, real live people (often citizens) work at corporations. Microsoft employees paid the taxes that will fund the overpass. (Actually, I think the supposed overpass has already existed for about 10 years.) And don't worry about the other projects in the state of Washington that *need* it more. They wouldn't get funded anyway no matter what. They haven't yet, and there's been plenty of money in the state budget for a long time now.

Then your non-vote was counted for whatever party rules the state you're in.

Obama was easily an 11 to most liberals, and McCain was never more than a 5 to most conservatives.