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   Guido van Rossum: People want CPAN (discussion on Python packages)(thread.gmane.org)

   65 points by fserb 17y ago|48 comments
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   by fserb 17y ago

   "To date, Chrome really hasn't had the success that I suspect Google had anticipated for it," said Sheri McLeish, a Forrester analyst. What sort of comment is that? One could create a quote like that about virtually anything in the world.
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   by fserb 17y ago

   But you would never define it like this in Haskell... You'd probably do something like: let n - m = ( n + (-m) ) `mod` 6 'let 3 - 4 = 5' is just a non-sense example.
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   by fserb 17y ago

   Do you care to elaborate on how '3-4=5' allows one to explore some more complicated mathematical constructs? Unless 'complicated' means 'ilogical' I cannot understand it. I think Haskell is a very nice language and it's flexibility on defin
5. 65.▲
   by fserb 17y ago

   Very nice. But how come Brazil has more internet users than Germany and India but it shows as having a smaller percentage of the world's internet users?
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   by fserb 17y ago

   Sorry for being grumpy, but how does it help to say that "1 petabyte = 20 million four-drawer filling cabinets filled with text"? Changing one huge number (1pb) with another (20M) doesn't add much to the overall understandability. The other
7. 67.▲
   by fserb 17y ago

   there's a thin line between mildly-interesting-to-hackers and reddit. Be very afraid. :)
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   by fserb 17y ago

   So, this is the people responsible for radar, navigation and electronic warfare. Great.