Tcl long ago fell into the Forth trap, and is now trying desperately to extricate itself (with some help from Sun's marketing department).

That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-)

In the Middle Ages people built cathedrals, where the whole town would get together and make a thing that's greater than any individual person could do and the…

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessi…

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.