One man's pain is another man's pastry. Especially if he's French.

Yeah? Why don't you write about it in your blag?

The only reason you'd be attacking PHP is so you can hide your own foolish design mistakes. Why don't you tell us what those are? WHAT ARE YOUR CRIMES?

Godwin's Law applies just as well to programming language advocacy: If your defense of a language requires pointing out that it's Turing-complete, you lose the argument.

And specifically an ill-tempered one. :-)

Posting "Me too!", like some brain-dead AOL-er? :-)

Actually, THINK Pascal did syntax highlighting on black and white Macintosh systems. It used different styles, such as boldface, instead of colors.

Really? I thought it was a reference to the 'Marklar' episode of South Park.

Lawsuits don't necessarily amount to mutually assured destruction for large companies, so it's not a failure of MAD.

It's a case of iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Usually, companies will cross-license each other's patents, since cooperating is cheaper than suing each other. But if, say, Apple believes the expected damages from an infringement suit against Google (minus the cost in PR and legal expense) outweigh the benefits of peaceful coexistence, then it makes sense (from their perspective) to sue.

YouTube? You can use Video DownloadHelper with Firefox, or one of the command-line equivalents.