I thought they were random names created for the funni.

Even one character at a time, since our screens are so small these days.

Are you suggesting that GTK is an inferior, not cross-platform toolkit? I’ll have you know that GTK runs just fine on BSD (and maybe other things from Redmond), you uncultured swine!

What if I’m writing for kde?

That’s right.

A lot of large companies have access to the Windows source tree. It’s quite common.

Absolutely. The source of Windows is widely made available to innumerable third parties, yet I’ve never seen anyone claim that it’s open source.

This usually means that it’s mostly useless.

I remember when we ran text editors on a turnip. It wasn’t much but we were happy.

It reminds me of the classic story of the guy who trained his mule to subsist without eating. He trained it by giving it less and less food every day,but just when it was about ready to go without food,the stupid animal died.

Science can be frustrating sometimes.

Pretty much from the same era. Either you learned how to teach your computer to do stuff or you were stuck with an expensive paperweight.

I thought that he was poking at a tribble.

"Yup, that one’s a goner, there’s no danger anymore captain. "

There’s a joke?

+++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR +++

Anything that only uses a phone app creates a mediocre experience by definition.

If it uses a standard API, it can integrate with anything and is convenient. You can use the phone if you want to.

All in all, there’s definitely a worrying trend for the worse in the market.

I’m just here for the memes in short skirts.

I never looked at Ruby, but that doesn’t seem like it would be great for readability (although maybe productivity).

Is ruby the new Perl?

Those magic match variables from regexen weren’t very legible if you weren’t a little familiar with them, but they were super useful in lots of cases. Perl could be a godsend to quickly parse lots of text.

You can write clean Perl easily. But it’s maybe a bit easier to write illegible code in Perl than in most other languages. It’s all up to you though.