“If you’re masochistic enough to program in Ada, we’re not going to stop you.” – Matt Welsh “Every site done in ASP that I’ve seen looks like a Compuserve home page done on a Commodore 64.” -’Penguin’ Pete Trbovich “The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offense: it mutilates the mind beyond [...]

It’s hard to believe that Perl 6 just hit its tenth anniversary. Whole empires have risen and crumbled in as much time. And after ten years, it’s starting to look kind of doubtful that Perl is ever going to see another version. Hey, everybody seems so happy with it now, what’s to change anymore? #1. [...]

This post over on Repeat Geek about 5 Types of Comments to Avoid Making in Your Code is good advice, and it rings true for anybody who slings variables – we’re all seen these many times. But it reminds me, newbie programmers first starting out could use some guidance as to good types of comments [...]