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The most advanced feature I see there is OO. If you think that OO is the pinnacle of modern language design, I highly encourage you to try out ML or Haskell and see the light.

Forgot to mention the irony that one of the principal architects of Common Lisp was Guy Steele, who is now developing Fortress.

The weakness of FORTRAN is that it entirely misses out of 50+ years of research and innovation in programming languages. My gripe with Julia is that it seems to be based on Common Lisp, which itself is pretty old at this point. Fortress seems like a better Fortran replacement to me, since it is actually based on modern functional programming languages. I mean, really, what's the point of releasing a new language based on outdated tech when better alternatives are available?

I give up. This is clearly something beyond the comprehension of your tiny white brain.

You are insinuating that the inferior intelligence of black people leads to inequities that they unfairly blame on whites, since the reason is ultimately due to their inferior genes, as the study suggests. This is easily the most offensive comment I've seen on /. in a while, I'm appalled that it was modded +3 Funny, and it's premise is flawed in multiple ways, not the least of which being that, if anything, the study only provides evidence for the argument that blacks are smarter than whites and not the other way around.

What you're implying is wrong in so many ways, I don't know where to start. But how about this: the gene is more prevalent in blacks than whites. Mod parent racist.

Replying just to undo an accidental mod. Good work there.

I want a pathogen named after me, dammit!

I'd call it ClassActionLawsuitStarter.

For future reference: people who complain about not being able to say things for fear of sounding racist, are usually racists.

Also, don't forget New York City Water Tunnel #3, which has been under construction for a respectable 42 years, and is estimated to be completed in 2020.

I'm sure this logic will be a comfort to you when they outlaw something that you do, and you end up getting arrested for it.

I'm glad I have flexible work hours, because otherwise I'd be looking forward to a 10%-increased chance of having a heart attack tomorrow or the day after. So... if there are 2 million heart attacks per year in the US, I guess that means several hundred extra heart attacks just due to this effect?

The problem was having to support different hardware platforms, not different OS versions: