I meant in the sense of coping with leverage forces and generally bumping, not waterproofing.

"The sooner type A goes away and is replaced completely with type C the better"

Depends on your use-case. Type A is a lot more robust and that matters when outdoors in certain enviroments.

Given the forces they have to put up with I very much doubt they're any less fragile than an aircraft fuselage and both Boeing and Airbus transport those around to the final assembly.

I don't remember anyway saying "Oh shit, the Empire State Building won't fit down 5th avenue, we can't erect it!"

What exactly is the problem with making the blades in sections and assembling on site just like buildings, aircraft, ships etc etc.

Bear in mind its only a small percentage of people who post like that, most people have better things to do with their lives that waste time getting into online arguments (says someone posting on social media right now albeit a tech site).

The UK government isn't corrupt - they're just the usual bunch of techno illiterate legal/political types who think the solution to any problem is more legislation. And not just the current Labour government, it was the same with the previous Tory ones too.

"If you are using regexes, you're outperforming Python by around a factor of 20, usually."

You do realise Python can also do regexes? In fact any modern language can, its not unique to perl. Perl simply made them part of its core syntax which is why its such a fucking mess.

I theory you could launch the nuclear material piecemeal as pellets embedded in massively thick explosion and re-entrant safe containers but that would jack up the price so high it would probably make the whole thing unfeasible even with a NASA budget.

The lefties would always complain. Remember in their warped world view even the most murderous, genocidal dictatorship is higher up the moral scale than any democratic western nation. You'll never find them protesting outside these dictators embassies or going on marches about atrocities in their countries.

I'll take the hundreds of lines of code. Regexps beyond a certain complexity tend to be fragile with non obvious broken edge cases.

"It gives Java a run for its money in producing the most bloated and fragile shitcode stacks known to man."

ROTFL!! Riiiight, and perl code is a never a shitpile of inefficient garbage with fragile regexps slung together by a coder who didn't have a clue.

Right, because other languages require $, & or @ in front of variables all the time. Not to mention all the other line noise that has nothing to do with regexps.

If you already know perl and are comfortable with it then sure. But for new devs Python is way more approachable because it has a much clearer and simpler syntax.

"People just don't know what Perl is capable of"

Incorrect. Any half decent programmer knows, we just didn't like its syntax and when something in the same just as powerful but far more readable came along in the same user-case area - ie Python - people switched in droves.

Assembler is very powerful but no sane person would use it to write day to day applications in and I'm afraid Perls explosion in a puncuation factory syntax was ultimately its downfall. Sure, Python isn't perfect with its syntactically meaningful whitespace nonsense, but I'll put up with that for code I can actually understand at first glance.

If it wasn't used it wouldn't be produced so no production gas releases.