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  1. Re:Well, that's it then. on openSUSE Hobbled By Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu and Debian indeed to enable the bytecode interpreter, choosing to ignore patents that have never been enforced.

  2. Re:build in page validator. on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    If your document is XHTML (and the MIME type tells the browser it is), you get validation for free.

  3. Re:Unless you rip out what you don't need. on Security Holes Draw Linux Developers' Ire · · Score: 1

    There hasn't been a backwards-incompatible syntactic change in Perl since the last major version change from Perl 4 to Perl 5. That was in 1994.

  4. Re:Their site Validates. on Mozilla.org Relaunched · · Score: 1

    XHTML is a lot easier to parse, it is better defined and it is easier to render. HTML 4 is the bloated recommendation with the styling tags and all that crud. XHTML (especially XHTML 2) is doing what HTML was in the beginning and got lost later: developing a good semantic and structural markup language, leaving layout to CSS.

  5. Re:Java on Paul Graham On 'Great Hackers' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perl lets you write code the way you want. It lets you write obfuscated code that is impossible to maintain two months down the road. It also lets you write code that is clean, modularized and extremely easy to maintain.

    Perl's strengths are not only in its dynamic nature, the CPAN module archive and its user base. It is also a very powerful language that is beautiful to those who have more coding experience than Teach yourself X in 21 days.

  6. Re:Meh.. on Are iTMS's 128kbps Songs Worth Collecting? · · Score: 1

    You probably mean 320kbps average bitrate, or even constant bitrate. True variable bitrate encoding does not specify an average bitrate, instead using an abstract quality meter. LAME implements real VBR; I don't know about other MP3 encoders or other codecs.

  7. Re:At least we know. on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    If you are referring to the Beagle 2 probe, it was not ESA's, but a British private project that hitched a ride from ESA's Mars Express probe.

  8. Re:What about readability? on Searching for the Best Scripting Language · · Score: 1

    And there is no such thing as PERL; the language is Perl and the program is perl. It is not an acronym.

  9. Re:This law is irrelevent. on E.U. Employers To Be Held Liable For Porn Spam? · · Score: 1

    Finland at least has actually stricter anti-spam laws than the EU directive calls for. Whether Finland fully implements the directive or not, I don't know, but at least the right thing is being done with spam.

  10. Re:How is java overkill? And how is this even big? on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 0

    And to be exact, you usually run Perl under mod_perl, not via CGI. (When using Apache, anyway.)

  11. Re:Every so often... on Better Search Results Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Google has a public API that you can utilise, and CPAN (Perl module repository) has the appropriate modules to make your work easier.

  12. Re:Certainly on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1

    ASP is not a language. Perl, with mod_perl, does not use CGI.