gregheo

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   nil, Nil, NULL, NSNull(nshipster.com)

   57 points by gregheo 14y ago|63 comments
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   _Modern Perl_ book updated for 5.14 available for download(onyxneon.com)

   1 points by gregheo 15y ago|0 comments
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   by gregheo 15y ago

   Perl is definitely bipolar in this respect -- I've never had an easier time of dealing with Unicode issues than in Perl, but I've also never cursed Unicode so much while dealing with it in Perl.
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   by gregheo 15y ago

   I'm pretty sure that's on purpose (Unicode prescription 1, prescription 2, etc.). Or did my <sarcasm> tag detector mess up again?
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   by gregheo 15y ago

   clang does support Objective C (as does gcc). Apple does look after a lot of plain old C (e.g. Core Foundation) and C++ (e.g. WebKit) too, so clang handles all three.
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   by gregheo 15y ago

   "Coffee shop" as in "gathering place". We have GitHub (social coding!) and now MITx (social learning?) I like the idea. It's like the whole point of the Internet -- bringing people together -- has reached brick and mortar.