Politically motivated.

Does the silent update give me a link to that page?

Investigate functional languages (O'Caml, F# or Haskell) and my comment may make sense :).

The larger point is that such details as indexes shouldn't matter -- you just want to solve your problem and shouldn't have to worry about irrelevant detail.

Yes, beacuse silent updates let you know which security problems you may have been exposed to.

That's TeX for you! :)

Since when is the indexing offset important? You should be using "zip", "map" (or even "parallel-prefix") and the like.

That's the thing that irks me most about Lua. It pretends to be "high-level", but it isn't really. (Well, that and weak typing. There really is not excuse for that -- other than ignorance.)

Null inhabits every single (non-primitive) type in the C# language.

A special tag is not type-compatible with every other single value in the language.

type Maybe a = Just a
                                                              | Nothing

Simple and doesn't infect every fucking variable access with the possibility of null.

Not speaking up signals to these fuckheads that their behavior is acceptable. It's not.