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@22:11 retry(3) should be placed after concatAll() to work.

great talk

+Roboprogs That's certainly true, but it's a very different claim than the one he's making.

+Kris Jenkins Well, it will never be Haskell (and probably doesn't want to be), but it's closer to Lisp.

+Joel Berger //cube-drone.com/comics/c/pipes

+Joel Berger the "use strict" thing is pretty funny, and is a pretty obvious "borrowing".Despite a fuzzy memory on the Perl 5 timeline, I'm pretty sure that Perl also borrowed things like closures from other earlier languages, as well. (e.g. - "code blocks" in Clipper 5, and wherever they borrowed that from...)

+Roboprogs  Perl 5 was released in 1994 (ref: //perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html) Javascript was released in 1996 (ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/A_re-introduction_to_JavaScript). The features that ES6 adds, those that mimic Perl, and are being touted as new and wonderful, have been in Perl since before Javascript existed and are basically unchanged since then.I am happy that Javascript is becoming a better. more usable language. I object to the claims that it is being born of their own creativity and not on the backs of the innovation of other languages before it. JS's strict mode is enabled using the phrase 'use strict' for goodness sakes! Exactly the Perl mechanism, except since "use" doesn't mean anything in Javascript, it is just a magic literal. The list of stolen features goes on and on. Again I don't care that they are stolen, just say "we are taking these from Perl, since, for all its warts, it got a lot of things right".

+Joel Berger I think that Javascript and Perl 5 are roughly the same age. Perl 4 did not have the blessings of lexical variable scope, references, closures nor an object call syntax. It seems both languages (JS & P5) where chasing many of the same goals at about the same time, so I would be hesitant to accuse one of ripping off the other.As much as I like Perl (often one of my language-of-choice selections for little home jobs), it's not available in a browser, and the rest is history.

+David DelikatThis guy is the senior Javascript programmer at Paypal, he created JSON and many other JS tools and scripts. I'm sure he's well aware.

interesting guy, really not sure if he knows what he's talking about or not.  he mentions quite a few tidbits, perhaps he has a non-technical audience and so leaves out the parts that I would like to hear.  his new data type is actually a reduction in range from a double.  he has transferred 3 bits from the exponent to the coefficient.  while he may have changed some other properties of the numeric format, he really has not improved on the standard double float value.  also, the people he needs to convince to use this new data type are the CPU manufacturers.  I am disappointed that he seems totally ignorant of perl and the number of innovations it has made over the years.  his general statement that outdated technology as 'bad ideas' doesn't inspire any confidence in his new ideas.