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Yeah, they should name the crab "Kiwa hirsuta stallmanensis" in his honor.
Yeah, they should name the crab "Kiwa hirsuta stallmanensis" in his honor.
Yeah, I wonder what real estate agents on the Canary Islands are going to say now.
Oh hallelujah, our problems are solved. We have banana bread.
Cocoa crucially depends on reflection features of the underlying language (obtaining classes, calling methods and manipulating data members by name). Lisp would obviously qualify for this (for sufficiently large values of "Lisp"), but standard Ada and Eiffel would be completely unsuited to the task, and I doubt OCaml would be suited.
I could see Ruby become an increasingly serious contender, though. Right now, the primary problem is that debugging is messier than in an Objective-C app, but otherwise, it's an excellent match.
The problem is that programming in Perl quite often is not a happy experience for the programmer. Too much magic. Too much line noise.
From the Perl 6 examples I've seen so far, the Perl 6 solution to this seems to be—more magic, and more line noise.
I am the local warlord, you insensitive clod!
If hating Microsoft is sick, I don't wanna be healthy!
Mod parent up!
However, I see MOBI files from various providers other than Amazon (e.g. Pragmatic Bookstore, and even Gutenberg). What is proprietary about MOBI?
If they train a dog to sniff out Bittorrent packets, I'll be truly impressed.
... and if you need a power of two based unit of speed, you use "dobi balls"
I'm looking forward to NC-17 rated superhero movies instead.
"Bigger, Bluer, and Uncut!"
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