spikyobjects

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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   COBOL has an even longer history processing business and financial data. Perhaps COBOL is the secret sauce that hedge funds use for high frequency trading?
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   Organizations which truly support Bitcoin would choose to spend it, not hoard it.
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   > But Perl 6 has effectively killed Perl. Oh fuck off, no one has been confused/concerned about the 5 vs 6 version numbering thing for at least 10 years. 5 is production, 6 is where the crazy geniuses experiment with language feat
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   Maybe you just weren't a good enough programmer for Perl?
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   As opposed to Perl, which was designed as a web framework language?
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   I can't help but feel bad for people who worry about this kind of thing.
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   Sorry but that is a very short list for anyone coming from a better established language.
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   > flagrant reinvention of the standard library That's b/c the C++ standard library (or its implementation among various compilers) was terrible 13 years ago when Qt 3 was released. Some say it still is.
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   by spikyobjects 12y ago

   Not directly answering your question, but: ZeroMQ is a network programming library that uses and encourages the use of "patterns". Take a look at the (excellent) ZeroMQ manual.