Reading this on a T42 with a 4:3 1400x1050. Will use it 'till one of us dies. Would love to by the same thing new.

The problem stems from the assumption that everyone surfing the web is a consumer. That is not often the case.

I strongly agree with this approach. Do some (admittedly toy) simple stuff in assembler first.

Then move on to C as their 2nd language.

Their 3rd language... can be whatever they want to implement in C. :)

C can teach you about navigating pointers and about memory leaks. The point here isn't to create great applications, it's to teach programming. If you start with python, you have no idea what python is doing, either for you or within your programs. Much better to implement hashes, linked lists, etc. before jumping into languages where all that stuff remains magical -- and apparently cost-free -- to the coders without that experience. It has nothing to do with which language is better to write applications with; it's to develop an understanding of what programs are.

What about the privacy of the people planning to overthrow the government when it is no longer following the constitution?

This. Or, more to the point, start your own business doing the same job the right way, as you see it. If you succeed, you were right (and lucky).

You know perl, you're supporting perl now, and you have no compelling reason to do something else in particular. So, two things:

• Your company should keep using perl.
• You should get a job you like.

Is it telling that I ran across this article twice and both times thought "What's the problem? just hit Ctrl-R and get on with it!" Now what's this "application" you speak of?

Sounds like M87's Puppeteers know something and are heading for higher ground.

Sorry, that was me. I left curl running in a loop on a 56kb dialup and went on vacation. My bad.

We've still to find any warp particles.

I have a friend who's son is on the no-fly list since he's 3 years old! He's twin brother is not.

Oh yeah, will I'm DEAD and on the no-fly list, and they can't fly my body back to my hometown for burrial. So there!

The charging stations could be embedded in asphalt or pads that lay on garage floors.

They lay... power-up eggs that the pac-man vans pick up? This makes no sense.

Okay, I'll run with that. So documentation is really just code that we run on users. Suddenly writing documentation has much more entertainment potential.