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   by mr_excellent 18y ago

   You could write apps to run on the [Openmoko]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko ) [Neo FreeRunner]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner ). The [Rasterman]( http://www.rasterman.com/ ) used to work for them (some info is on his
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   by mr_excellent 18y ago

   Markdown is probably the simplest and prettiest of the text markup formats. And to answer your question, it's easier to hit the asterisk key than to reach for the mouse to hit the "italics" button.
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   by mr_excellent 18y ago

   Please put some line breaks in there -- your post fouls up the rendering of the whole page of comments (it makes the page too wide).
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   by mr_excellent 18y ago

   > I’m also not advocating doing large projects in Perl. Actually, you can nowadays. With Perl 5, use strict, use warnings, use Moose, write tests, and have a look at modern Perl best practices. And, of course, Perl 6 should be quite wel
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   by mr_excellent 18y ago

   Yes, these days, people are free to choose. However, after trying the alternatives, I think Perl is still a winner. I spent some time (maybe 6 months) with Python recently. The first few weeks you're amazed at how uniform and regular everyt