An interesting C derivative that has borrowed from many other languages - including those of the ML family. A C with type safety, memory management (though still manual memory management), polymorphic functions, pattern matching, type inference and many other nice features. Packaged in a perversely bloated syntax that builds on the already perverse C syntax
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I can't add anything to that. If the Python community starts bringing features into the language by argumentatively besieging Guido, and if these compromises are then realized according to the motto "a syntax that everyone likes equally little", then it's time to switch languages. Ruby looks nice and the available modules for various purposes easily match Python. Or Prothon - though the available modules are still very sparse there. Or simply back to good old MzScheme? Here's the original article.
I find it somewhat silly to write that iMovie removes copy protection just because you can do a re-encoding of AAC files with it - coupled with the quality losses that come with re-encoding. It becomes particularly silly when you know that iTunes itself can do a re-encoding of AAC files to MP3 - and also removes the DRM in the process. But of course that way the headline sounds much cooler ...
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