I am always amazed when people fail to distinguish between constants and variables. I am all the more amazed when the victims of such confusion are the otherwise brilliant implementers of programming languages. You'd think that if anyone knows the difference between a variable and a constant, it would be a programming language implementer.
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- Toi, t'es contribuable ou contribué?
- Moi? Tribué: pas con!
- T'es sûr? Tu veux dire, tu as une occupation si malfaisante que dans un régime de transactions volontaires, personne ne te paierait autant voire plus pour le même boulot bien fait?
- Non, j'dis pas ça. Mais moi, tu vois, j'suis fonctionnaire: j'fonctionne pour un monopole public.
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Since several friends did recommend this movie, including David Madore, and despite the gripes of Lew Rockwell, I went to watch I, Robot this weekend with my cousin ( Read more... )