Will change name to Downsized Composites now.

It's once-in-a-lifetime thing for those who'll be dead by August 7, 2027.

...are you serious?

Vampires could get off the hook, though, if you remove the leukocytes from their food.

Americans. At least the last time I checked.

That sounds like a loaded question. If we find through scientific research that either dogs or cats are smarter than the other, will we exterminate the other ones for just this reason? Why should research in genetics necessarily imply unethical actions to follow?

"Baseless"... Heh.

I'm not sure it's overall arbitrary. Sure, there's a lot of problems with it, lot of randomness, but the brain usually digests some rules from the chaos. It's sort of an 80/20 venture. (But it's certainly better than kanji, for example.) Plus, "polish" and "Polish" are two different words. That's because they have different etymology. I can assure you that different pronunciation of true homographs is most certainly not exclusive to English.

We Europeans have been trying to weed them out of our economy but apparently we need to approach it in an entirely different way, since we've only managed to hash it up so far. We'll now try to potshot them.

You might like OMeta, then. Bring Your Own Syntax (and Semantics).

One of the commonly expected features would be the ability to late-bind the features of the language itself, for example, method lookup. Which C++ to my knowledge lacks, the mechanisms are fixed.

Where's Tablizer?

Here? :-)

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.