Because there's difference between coding style and significant whitespace.

// Somebody pasted a few lines, but didn't reindent last line.
// Still correct syntax, still does the same, Reindent All fixes the formatting and everybody's happy.
  if (x) {
    statement1
    statement2
  statement3
}
 
# Somebody pasted a few lines, but didn't reindent last line.
# Still correct syntax, statement3 errorneously executes every time, IDE doesn't help (it could reindent _when pasting_, not after the fact). Have fun debugging!
  if x:
    statement1
    statement2
  statement3

First, your BNF example is lame because it describes only grammar of a language - but grammar alone doesn't make a language and there's no standard notations for all the rest of what makes a language.

Second, yes, language expressed in these forms is an expression of idea. That is, you can copyright a BNF description of grammar, and even specification of your language, but they're _expressions of idea of a language_, but not the language itself.

Saying that copyright on specification is copyright on the language is like saying copyright on a book is copyright on its plot.

But of course they have to be paid more now that they work more efficiently and provide more skills to the company.

The proper solution would be a kind of subsidized loan on the training - send them to study, raise the pay and then recover the training costs from the wages.

Want to jump ship? Return the loan. Gonna stay with us after the loan ends? Great, enjoy your raised pay.

Capital letters mean variables, evaluation is by rewriting and pattern matching.

Seems like it's trying to substitute every mention of Factorial for "if (Number

factorial Number = if (Number <=1 ) then 1 else (Number * factorial (Number -1))

this works

As well as this:

Number! = if (Number <=1 ) then 1 else (Number * (Number -1)!)
 
5!

You can even write something like "X plus Y minus Z = X+Y-Z" and ask it for "5 plus 4 minus 9"

They do. Filesystems and device drivers are on the kernel side in monolithic OSes, FUSE/CUPS/SANE/graphics drivers with minimal kernel mode parts/etc. muddy the difference.

It's easy to declare an OS as microkernel or _not_ microkernel, but "monolithic" is pretty much meaningless term, unless you just define anything non-microkernel to be monolithic.

Here's one real-world microkernel OS, for example.

Though most real-world is neither pure micro- nor pure macro-kernel, Win NT, OS X and Linux are stuck somewhere inbetween with varying degree of user-space/kernel-space separation.

> why is one place saddled with search engine results that are negative and another not?

Because one place is famous for bad thing happening there and another is not. Searching for Jane Q. Celebrity will turn up her personal site first, as she's famous by herself, but searching for brutally murdered John Smith will turn up news reports, not his facebook page.

Your definition of "relevance" is strange. If most people looking for "Nuremberg" or "Bhopal" are interested in trials and chemical plant disaster, filling top page with tourist spots would be irrelevant.

Great post, except top result for "camping alfaques" is "Alfaques Camping - Apartamentos - Camping www.alfaques.com/" both on Google and Bing and they are just ticked off by image search feature showing unpleasant pictures.

But why get constrained by boring reality, when you can rant instead?

> why not call them 'burglars'?

Better yet, call them "terrorists" and the public will immediately see how bad and wrong they are.

After all, nomenclature, not what someone actually did, is what really matters.

You don't need "all the new syntax" to start using C++11, many of most useful additions are already in all major compilers and have been there since the times when C++11 was known as C++0x and C++ TR1. Current GCC is missing only a few features.

... because they're pretending that the many tens of thousands of lines of code in the OS and libraries don't count ...
... because they're pretending that the many tens of thousands of lines of HDL code in the processor don't count ...

True demoscener builds his own CPU out of transistors and resistors. Some suggest that using logic gates ICs is acceptable, but they're wimps.

Almost kilobyte? Yep, not very impressive considering what people build in 1 kB of Javascript.

Not to mention all the cool things people stuff in 512 byte intros for demo parties.

Isn't testing all those people "I'll have to look into that"?

And religious fanatics spending money to put religious and anti-atheistic messages on buses and billboards are perfectly okay.

Because you're blind and deaf, probably.

I don't know, probably not less than same amongst christians. Some christians are pretty vicious. Some are barely hiding their schadenfreude behind "Ha! That's God's punishment for you" when disasters strike - instead of, you know, helping victims as Christ would do. Sure, you could argue that those who don't follow these tenets vehemently are not true christians, but then you could also argue there were only thirteen true christians at all, or may be even just one.

PS: Oh, and by the way, the word is "a-the-ist", from negative prefix "a-" and "theos". I'm not sure what an "athiest" is, probably superlative form of "athy" - as in athy, athier, athiest, but it is a sure sign of illiteracy.

Just don't forget to win small prises in many different lotteries, or else you'll get people suspicious with all the jackpots you grab.

Someone should get all the results of all the lotteries, do some statistics and find them psychics who get ahead with unfair advantage.