Ok, in this thread there are already C++, Ruby, and Perl 6 versions of your snippets, so I'll add the Python ones.

lines.sort(lambda a, b: a.name < b.name)
or
lines.sort(key=lambda o: o.name)

from glob import glob
files = glob("c:/Windows/*.exe")

I think a good analogy would be Perl is Finish, Python is Esperanto. When you have hundreds of thousands of LoC to maintain, I guess a more direct and unambiguous language is preferred.

It occurred to me that perhaps Perl is an attempt to seduce the computer... too bad it will take some time before it can appreciate language nuances... ;)

No, the OP does not have a point. Why are you focusing on one specific instance? Violence is widespread, and is committed by all kinds of people. Christians of all denominations in the US were quite content with the fact their government torture people (or offshore the task). The loads of innocent people that are killed in drone attacks are also not victims of muslim terrorists.

Religions are stupid and should be extinguished, but the correct way to achieve that goal is through education. With violence you'll only get more violence.

If by "normal" you mean the normal curve, I guess you're right... probably the majority of the population is ignorant people that can't analyze the facts for themselves. Easier to watch Fox News and hate the other group.

It is not the full beta. Just the tip.

Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure
Say, "I do believe."
Uncross your arms now
Take 'em to it
Say, "I do believe
I do believe."

Architectural improvements for general purpose CPUs yield less and less benefits: Even more registers? Even better branch prediction? Even larger caches? It'll all yield but a few percent, at least for current Intel designs. So, the way to go is currently more and more cores, but what good is it to have many cores that can't all fire simultaneously?

Of course general purpose CPUs exist, simply because we call them that way. But it is also true that each design has it's own strengths, and "dark silicon" is another driver for special purpose hardware. Efficiency is another. Andrew Chien has published some interesting research on this subject. In his 10x10 approach he suggests to use 10 different types of domain-specific compute units (e.g. for n-body, graphics, tree-walking...), each of which is 10x more efficient than "general purpose CPUs" in its domain (YMMV). Those compute units bundled together, make up one core of the 10x10 design. Multiple cores can be connected via a NoC.

Let's see how software will cope with this development...

ps: can special purpose hardware exist if general purpose hardware doesn't?

FTFY

It's amazing how the joke got old so quick. I guess you should have stopped around the third iteration.

And before you come criticize this comment, wait for Bennett's.

IIRC, the license explicitly forbids running it under a VM... though in my opinion if you paid for the crap you should be able to run it whatever way you want.
But, as I said, Windows is just a waste of hard disk space to me, be it a partition or VDI.

Because nobody offers that option. I would gladly request a refund for the Windows 7 that came with my notebook if I could. The only reason I keep its partition is because I paid for that crap, and just "in case I need it"... but it's been 3 years so far without booting it. I guess I'll just wipe it and give more space to my Linux partition whenever I get some time to do it.

Does that apply even if you're scratching your head while saying the false things (or the "least untruthful things") intentionally?

...that 35k come to Point Lay to get laid?