I love Lua. Wish there was a shorter syntax for anonymous functions, though. (function(x) return x*x end)

Also, Lisp macros would be nice (didn't look at metalua)

Metalua comes out-of-the-box with a short lambda syntax: "function (x, y, ...) return foobar end" is shortened as "|x,y,...| foobar".

And it comes with macro capabilities, plus syntax extension facilities to make them more user friendly.

What is the best example of this combo ?

Also, the idea reminds me of this: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wiki?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers

That's 1000 dollars per user (that created content). Isn't that too much? Is this value important?

I don't think this is an effort to acquire users.

Good point -- Google's got a bunch of users, I hear. ;-)

Can't find the Anything book, can you please give a link?

his blog:

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/

Why not 4M on safe 1% fund and 1M on riskier investment like stocks from Bluechips?

What became of Steve Yegge?

He's at Google and recently announced their new static analysis framework for Python: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054036

Sure... but I wish I could still read him sometimes. There is no blogger I enjoy to read these days (mostly they are too techinical...)

I heard he's stuck in a fish tank, swimming along the edges of the glass to find a way out.

Could someone please explain this (joke?) to me?

It's a reference to this blog post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-...

It's something he used to notice his goldfish doing before it died of loneliness, apparently.

It's a sad story and very well written.

It was a woman.

She, not it.

Expletive 'it'. As in, 'It was a woman who died.'

How can you tell? Did you work on it for a few months or you can just browse the SVN and notice it's well designed? I look and all I see at first is indentation style and directory organization.

By studying the code?

If all you noticed from seriously looking through the source is that it is well indented and well organized, you're probably not an experienced enough C++ programmer to evaluate the merits (no offense intended).

Indeed... So by clean you mean looking for usages of certain C++ features that should be avoided?

How can you "infer" the design only by looking at a pile of C++?

One probably couldn't by merely looking at it. Reading it with the specific intent to understand it, on the other hand, can make design intent pretty clear. (One would hope that the structure of the program is at least homomorphic to the intended design, if not isomorphic.)

This tires the eyes like normal LCDs, so for my main use it's the same as a netbook.