Do you also find horse races uninteresting since cars (which can win any race against a horse) were invented?

Pi is used for things other than the circle constant, too...

The odd and even numbers are subsets of the integers... neither pi nor tau is odd or even.

Who cares? How is this in any way relevant to the discussion?

Seriously? A few weak arguments? I see 2pi way, way more often than pi.

That's pretty common in the developing world, and in the United States. GP probably comes from one of those two (likely the former, since this is Slashdot)

I'm a native English speaker who had just woken up when I wrote that :)

"Lambda functions" means syntactic sugar for a certain variety of first-class function. This is a bit like saying every language has operator overloading because one can write a function called Plus.

i've never heard of such a thing. Then again I'm not (primarily) a c++ guy. Care to provide an example of lambdas before C++ 2011?

You're worried about hassle for the "average user" who runs Sudoku apps. These users are on Windows. For tthose who are on Mac, Macs have a good enough package installation system that it's not too big of a deal for packages to have prerequisites.

BBut anyway,why are you citing external factors to somehow prove that C# iis an inferior language? Its "goodness" is in no way diminished by the fact that few platforms have implementations written for them.

Why is using Firefox (really XUL/Gecko) as an application development platform for creating an SSH client any less secure than using any other combination of libraries and UI frameworks for doing so?

Re: your second paragraph: that's not how it works.

Only if people with a higher tax burden are less likely to successfully reproduce, which I find implausible.

Is there anyone out there who still believes this?

C# is a "scripting language"?

Maybe when you graduate from high school, you'll learn that how cool you are is unrelated to the height of the language you program in.