You can just type:

X nm = (X*10) angstroms

The plan is that people will be able to define lots of functions like this, along with much more complicated ones, and then share them. The best of them will become part of the default vocabulary.

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Or somehow silence grammar nazis...

Yeah, it kinda is. Did you ask that when Slashdot opened their codebase many years ago? How about when Reddit did it? What about Google with their various open source projects?

You should be glad that people open source things.

Nah, just wanton irresponsibility :-)

Soulver was actually what inspired LastCalc, but I wanted to bring it to the web, and make it programmable.

OpalCalc looks neat, unlike Soulver it supports functions, and I'm sure it has a few features that LastCalc currently lacks.

However LastCalc has a few features that OpalCalc lacks too, such as support for higher-level datastructures like lists and maps, pattern matching (like Haskell), and the ability to pull data from the web to use in calculations.

So I'm not sure that I would describe OpalCalc as "LastCalc on steroids" by any stretch.

It's software, the website is just one place you can obtain the software but there are others.

I'm fairly sure that merely using LastCalc (ie. being a user of the web service) doesn't impose any responsibilities.

Ok, just for you I risked borking the site during a slashdotting and I implemented a quick fix. You're welcome :-)

Yeah, you're confusing it with a recursive function definition, I've been meaning to fix that. I guess I'll fire up Eclipse (it's Java, not Lisp)

Can you elaborate? Which clauses specifically make onerous demands?

That said, Tesla is a US company, and Top Gear Is produced by BBC in the UK. So I'm not sure there is much hope for this lawsuit to accomplish anything anyways.

I'm guessing you haven't heard much about British libel laws.

Why are they coming up with their own operating system and app ecosystem, is this really the core competency of a car company? Why aren't they using Android, which already has text to voice, voice to text, GPS navigation, and almost everything else you might need in a car?

Slashdot no-longer looks like a car crash by reverting to essentially the level of site complexity they had in 2006 (or, at least, disguising the "improvements" more effectively). Will be interesting to see if this stems or reverses the exodus of readers /. has experienced over the past half-decade.