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  1. Re:That's simply not possible as is. on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perl gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself, that's why you can often see appaling perl code. But the power of perl may also be a boon ; "use strict; use warnings;" , Perl::Tidy, Devel::Refactor, can help you tremendously to refactor bad code.

  2. That's simply not possible as is. on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually the problem is that "only Perl (the executable) can parse Perl (the language)". There isn't any formal description of the current language implementation, that effectively renders near to impossible to parse and execute Perl code outside of the perl binary; some edge cases of the syntax particularly are only determined at runtime (instead of compile time).
    Perl 6 is among other things an answer to this limitation, because it's thoroughly spec'd in the "synopses", and is actually currently implemented in two different ways (Parrot VM written in C, and Pugs written in Haskell). So it's perfectly possible to make IronPerl6, but no IronPerl.

  3. Re:Controversy? What controversy? on Peru To Be First To Put Windows On OLPC Laptop · · Score: 1

    I've personnally paid for an OLPC. I've paid to give a child somewhere a computer with free software, not microsoft crap. I've been ROBBED.

  4. Re:phew.. on Odysseus's Return From the Trojan War Dated · · Score: 1

    There isn't any solid evidence, period. Even the Bible doesn't make it clear, just read it, not the comments...

  5. 64KB should be enough for everyone... on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Thanks to Contiki OS you can have a complete operating system with a web browser on a good ol' C64, Atari 800... Now that's unbloated software!

  6. Re:I've got an old dell they can use... on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is exactly how broken 78RPMs records are read today, mostly old radio archives. The sound can even be better than actually reading the disk on a real phono :)

  7. Re:Poor thunderbird on Thunderbird to Leave Mozilla Foundation · · Score: 1

    The only real group that Thunderbird could go after would be the business users. However, in order to do that, you need to be able to connect to Exchange and do calendars, notes, task lists, and Exchange contact lists.

    AFAIK Evolution can connect to MS Exchange, and the Exchange client was free ( as speech ) for a couple of years now. I suppose it should be possible to port this ability to Thunderbird.

  8. Re:interesting angle on BusinessWeek Advocates Microsoft Piracy · · Score: 1

    But... but... Wait a minute, isn't BusinessWeek the sort of magazine that glorifies the wonders of free trade, capitalism and of course the over-sanctified Free Market Competition? Then they pretend that monopoly is good? Do you really think they may indeed be just a bunch of hypocrit liars, whose stupid articles should never be read by anyone for the sake of sanity, honesty, and intelligence? Come on!

  9. Re:Friends/Family Influce People, Doen't CAUSE on Study Proves Having Fat Friends Makes You Fat · · Score: 1

    I stopped eating tons of chocolate and cakes and cookies and pasta and sauces, and started exercizing more (I'm up to 90 minutes to 2 hours a day now) in the last two months, and I've lost 12 kgs while gaining lots of muscle. I still eat chocolate but only 20 grams a day, I'm still eating rice or pasta but only once a week, and I wouldn't ever touch any junk food (soda, chips, crackers) with a ten foot pole (not that I ever ate much of it though). Yeah, go running in the woods instead of watching TV and you'll lose weight, that's as simple as that!

  10. Re:One lander per person? on Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars · · Score: 1

    I simply wanted to state the following fact : if your descent is successful 80% of the time ( and therefore fails 20% of the time ), in 6 descents you'll have 74% chances of one failing...

  11. Re:PHP 6 on Virtual Containerization · · Score: 1

    Yeah, PHP is so blatantly insecure by design that it's probably broken beyond any hope of repair, and should be jailed.

  12. Re:One lander per person? on Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars · · Score: 1

    This is RAID-0, by multiplying the number of descents you multiply the risks that one fails. And what will the astronauts do if the "unmanned life-support" stuff fails to land?