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Probably better to just completely disable most functionality when the car is in motion; that's what my non-touchscreen UI does in my car.

> When Python's standard library was first being written, there were no easy package managers for any language

Wasn't perl's CPAN developed around that time period (mid '90s) ?

Is that really PHP's, though? It's been in shell scripts and perl for quite a while...

For perl, a lot of my searches end up at perlmonks. A lot of great answers for more arcane :) perl.

> Python mostly scratches that itch for me, but even there it has multiple methods to do the same stuff within the standard library, like list.sort() and sorted(list)

There's also the list vs tuple thing. I can understand it from an efficiency point of view, but it isn't as consistent as just having one such data structure (e.g., a perl array)

Learning perl first stunted my bash knowledge; I'm very, very quick to bail into perl at the first sign of difficulty. :)

Flat/Metro UI, live tiles, jump lists, dark mode. (I'm still using mine as a daily driver)

Some of us still are. And not just because of memory. :)

But doesn't the whitespace issue gimp Python's lambda syntax? AFAIK you're limited to one expression or function call, to get around the fact that you can't just inline a completely new function (with its associated control flow structure).

And what about one-liners, a la Perl? Stack Overflow answers seem to imply either embedding newlines in your string, or using semi-colons (as a Python newbie... you can use semi-colons?!)

This is exactly where perl (namely, perl -ne) is so very, very useful.

"Not uncommon" is an understatement. In some workplaces, Simulink is as pervasive and core to engineering as Excel is to the business world in general.

Are you me? :)

With my Windows Phone I am immune from websites continually trying to push me to use their app ( take that, reddit! ;) ).

And it makes a great smartphone for my son... just enough capability to stay connected, but a lot of distractions are just not possible to indulge in...

An IT department that controls compiler upgrades, in my case :/. We're still stuck on not-quite-C++11 because we're still stuck on g++-4.3

Ada?

Driving across the Pacific anytime soon? :)

reddit?

> This stuff is almost 100 years old. It was written for a society very different from our own.

Different, yet still the same in many important ways. If this means great things like Harold Lloyd's seminal comedy Safety Last! will now be freely available, we've all won something...

> Today, Chrome isn't the best and doesn't come bundled with devices,

I think you're forgetting the largest smartphone OS on the planet there. :)

Roblox seems to have a pretty good Lua mod ecosystem.

> I want it all, I want to have my cake and eat it too.

Conceptually this should be possible with some preprocessor/header tinkering; something like:

private.h:

  struct Bar {
    double x;
    double y;
  };
  #define BAR_DEFINED

public.h:

  #ifndef BAR_DEFINED
  struct Bar {
    char opaque[16];
  };
  #endif

  struct Foo {
    Bar bar;
  };

consumer.cpp:

  #include "public.h"

private_implementation.cpp:

  #include "private.h"
  #include "public.h"

I ditched Android 2+ years ago for... Windows Mobile. :)

While I did so for purely financial reasons (Microsoft was in the process of bailing out, so was putting their stock on fire sale and I couldn't resist, ecosystem disadvantages notwithstanding), I've come to appreciate the design and will be sad once I have to leave (I'm still using a Windows 10 Mobile Alcatel IDOL 4s as my daily driver).

To me, Windows Mobile had some of the best parts of Android (hardware variety) and Apple (regular OS/security updates for all).

I'm not surprised, given the power of the CLI and the composibility of tools like grep, awk, sed, find, etc. IDEs are great, but sometimes what you need to do just isn't already defined in a GUI checkbox or menu item...

I'd imagine having to maintain last-access time on files can be constraining for filesystem performance.

Reports of perl's death are greatly exaggerated.

> Mentally switching into "perl" mode to work on these projects requires tons more effort then switching between our other Bash/PHP/Puppet/Python

That's surprising to me. Bash, PHP and perl seem to be closer to each other than any of them are to python. For example, the use of sigils ($var) for variable names in Bash/PHP/perl.

I blame my rudimentary knowledge of sh on perl... As soon as the going gets tough when I'm writing sh, I immediately bail into perl. :)

I think it depends. We recently had an issue with our fifteen-year-old Kenmore dryer not heating anymore. A little scouting around showed new dryers around the $500 mark, so I decided to do a little more research into diagnosing what might be going on, before just buying a replacement.

Fortunately the online Sears parts outlet has a great DIY video section that helped me use my very rudimentary multimeter skills to pinpoint the issue to a bad heating element. $50 later and we have a working dryer again (and I'm not so mystified by my dryer anymore :) )!

> Sort of what people used to use Perl for.

Used to? People still do this (I should know; I'm one of them).

Perl is still my goto language for scripts. It all depends on what you're used to.

I work with a lot of numerical code. Fortran's not going away any time soon.