Wild guess, but its probably because FF is built on the mozilla framework, which is used by at least several popular apps. For example I also use Mozilla Thunderbird and ActiveState Komodo every day.

There are vmware images of OSX in the wild and the XCode emulators are the best emulators I've ever seen. So you could pull it off... though if you're serious about it you do need a device.

But I'm not sure who all those people that are buying iOS devices are if you don't have one already.

When this happens, it is the civic responsibility of the person who feels underrepresented to get involved in politics and get constituents to vote for them.

If nobody votes for you, that is proof that your opinion is an extreme minority.

If you just sit on the couch and do nothing, you have no right to complain.

This is the way the U.S. government works.

Sure, you've got a point. You need it, or some foreign entity is going to be pounding on your door with a gun to your face telling you to bow to their flag.

But the current means to achieve the end in place now is rather absurd. The waste, abuse, and fraud is mind boggling.

> If the DoD budget was trimmed even by half (which is still too bloody much spending) and the monies redirected toward, infrastructure, education, health, technology research, etc.. Inside of a very few short years we'd be looking at realizing a Utopian society. I don't think anyone really understands just how bloody big their budget is relative to all other spending.

This is so true man. This is why I rarely comment on political discussion. Unless it is to talk about cutting defense spending, its pointless. Cut defense spending and... well... its pretty pointless pointing it out because no one seems to care.

It reminds me of burning the library in Alexandria a few millennia ago. What a waste of human effort.

Kind of so obvious the a MS only solution is going to have this that I didnt think it needed mentioned.

I was talking about between PHP, perl, ruby, and python that perl was the only language that can do this out of the box on any platform.

> Because this still works:

Sure. This is DWIW (Do What I Want). Why should the code to add a string and a number include a type conversion? You've used the + operator, so its obvious to everyone that you want to add. Why should the code have to be more verbose than that?

By your logic, this is better programming:

i = parseInt("25") + 10; # $i is 35

Thats better?

CPAN is overrated.

A customer came to me with an outlook express email database that needed parsed. 15 minutes later I had this stub working:

use Mail::Box::Dbx;
my $dbx = Mail::Box::Dbx->new(folder => 'c:/path/to/database.dbx');
foreach my $mid ( $dbx->messageIds ) {
my $message = $dbx->find($mid);
print $message->subject, "\n";
}

I looked around and no other language has anything like this.

Python and Ruby are slow as molasses compared to Perl. Automatic dereferencing is absurd. It makes you write lines of code when a simple memory lookup would do.

> Would anyone convert existing perl 5 scripts to perl 6?

Perl 6 isn't a replacement for Perl 5 in the sense that Perl 5 was for Perl 4.

I've got plenty of uses for p6, but I'm sure I'll continue to use p5 for the rest of my life.