> The point is that there is NO EVIDENCE to suggest that the brains of females are any less capable of developing mathematical proficiency and talent

If you want to be literal: no, for that precise point there might be no hard evidence, but there is enough evidence that females don't actually develop it, and that's what counts. I might have all the talent to become the world's #1 short distance runner, but I am not.

> Comments like these are usually from people with zero real life experience.

Well, I've had my experience with Perl, and it did not please me. I'm not even referring to the antics of parameter passing or obscure syntax use. No, Perl couldn't even get a simple while ( && ) right. Being able to combine conditions is not an idiotic requirement, it is Compositionality 101. It is the basis of logic, and it permeates natural language. That's what Wall's background as a linguist amounts to. He just wants to create some vaguely interesting language, not a solid one from an engineering point of view.

> Perl has CPAN, the likes of which don't exist in Python.

Some people would argue otherwise. But if the size of the library matters, you should program in Java.

Interesting. If you liked the OP, this is a must-read.

Turkey and Egypt would fit the bill too, I believe. The whole region doesn't work on Saturday.

Go and live in SJW land. You'll be much happier there.

Reddit is hypocritical, sure. They shouldn't allow any of it, or all of it and face the music. I'm in favor of the first. Away with all those haters. Let them set up their own site where they can spew their venom.

About censorship: saying "we're no longer going to facilitate you trolling and harassing" isn't censorship, when there are other ways of expressing a dislike of obese people that are not banned. Unless you're really strict about it, but then you could even argue that not allowing user names longer than 255 characters is censorship.

Are you serious, or trolling?

It's pathetic. And he's already resigned/been made to resign. As a friend of mine remarked: sadly it's better to shag all your female PhDs than to make a joke about it.

It isn't censorship. If they want to spout their fathate somewhere, they can build their own site. As far as I'm concerned, the current measures don't go far enough. There are still subreddits like coontown, skinnypeoplehate, cuteabortions, etc. Repulsive.

I think the physicists were jealous of the social sciences. In parts of it, you can really just write anything, and in other parts, just a minor experiment that has an outcome that could possibly be seen as an affirmation is enough. And then you can publish all the clickbait you want, and without all that studying and math. It's a brave, new world!

Come on!

$ grep -riH "back ?door" .

So a few people can spend a bit of time looking through hundreds of millions of lines of code? How is that useful?

The implicit bias test used is controversial, to say the least. According to mainstream cognitive psychology, it measures temporary perceptual associations via priming. These do not have a causal relation with higher level opinions. The effect can be caused by something as uninteresting as the local way of referring to science and scientists.

Methods? They had a large number of factors to correlate with their data: 25 (possibly a few more, depending on what you read), and ran a multiple regression over it, and are reporting an effect for every p .05. That's bad science at multiple levels.

It's just another fishing expedition.

I see. Printf is a bit of a weird function: perhaps they need a better macro syntax. Expanding at compile time is safe, so a good language for that might overcome (part of) these problems.

> it will actually become common and necessary to "do ugly things" in order to get stuff done in real-world applications.

Quite likely. But if that can be kept to a minimum, possibly shielded behind macros and the likes, and the rest of the code can achieve good performance, then we might have won something.

> A simple printf function has to be a macro

I don't see anything wrong with that. Actually, it sounds quite sensible: it gets rid of some ugly variable arguments handling code, but still keeps the source readable. For the rest: Rust is an interesting idea, but doesn't look ideal. Apparently, it does not interface well with C++, only C, but mixing with C++ could be a good start. Rewrite some buggy code in Rust where it makes sense while keeping the rest in C++.