Well, in most languages with some OOP support.

There's probably a number of reasons, but the one explanation I like the most is Sussman's explanation in SICP regarding how object type systems relate to ontologies in knowledge systems: since we still have problems with the latter, it is logical we hit inadequacies and corner cases in the former, too.

Actually, he also talked about how all he wanted was possible in Lisp, and it is my understanding that CLOS had been dragged into the "pay-as-you-go" performance territory quite some time ago.

Ugh. If you want DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO, you know where to find it.

Half a year seems like a sensible policy to me. It's not like there will be another encounter with another comet this year. The worst thing that could happen is that an outsider can't hint at something interesting that would warrant closer inspection by the probe as long as it is active - something the scientists involved would miss - but the chances of that seem minuscule (a lot of research is most certainly pre-planned, and the science teams have eyes of their own).

Of course it's completely inappropriate for her to be creeped out by it. My dictionary tells me that "the creeps" should only be reserved for the scariest situations, and should simple unwelcome advances lead to this feeling, a young person would be doomed to live in perpetual fear. That state of mind is unhealthy.

As demonstrated by the Tanakh, the Bible, and the Quran.

A similar thing happened to another ground-based telescope, I believe it was the Discovery Channel Telescope. They grounded and polished an extremely precise reflective surface...around the wrong axis. ;-) So they just adjusted the mount.

Well, with a few lucky mutations, he could get the reading comprehension of a sighted squirrel.

What, you want us to read summaries now? What is this, the 20th century?

Hidden wirelessly attached storage?

Continuously?

The Star Trek:TNG "whoosh!" sound?