I agree that compiled statically typed code is more robust than scripts, but I'd choose a safer language like C# or Java over C.

You might want to consider separating your front and back ends with an API that could be accessed by Flash or AJAX.

You can then introduce a simple client and progressively enhance it according to your client's sensitivities. If you use AJAX I recommend jQuery.

That doesn't mean they're the most popular. It might be people all sharing stuff to say "look how retarded this code is."

(just saying)

I've given up smoking several times, the last time, successfully, about 3 years ago. The previous attempt was pretty much doomed - it was mid-August 2001 and I was living in lower Manhattan.

The thing that is most difficult about nicotine is that it is intimately connected with the way your brain processes novelty. If you're a smoker and you're learning (say) a new language or API, your body automatically makes you light cigarettes and smoke them; you only become aware that you have been smoking when you're stubbing them out.

Please keep it clean folks.

Wishful thinking aside, The Gimp < Photoshop.

Not everyone is a professional graphics designer. Sometimes you just want to resize and sharpen your photo before you put it on your blog.

Except Gimp comes with the OS installation.

This guy comes across as being angry that people quit Linux, as though they owe Linux something.

Angry and unreasonable because of it. I've used nothing but Linux for the past 10 years, but I think most people are better off using Windows.

Pouring molten solder into a mold seems kind of crude; solder is rather blobby even with flux.

I'd have thought that using printer technology would be easier. You could print conductive areas and semiconductors and resistors directly onto an insulator. You could make 3D objects as papercraft.

My project, phpSprockets (http://code.google.com/p/phpsprockets/) does nested markup by working as a node system. After all, if you're going to generate HTML in code you might as well do it in an object oriented way.

$table = new Sprocket( 'table' );

$tr = $table->tr();

$tr->td( "OMG I'm in a sprocket" );

I've done similar things using XElement in C#, though using PHP's magic methods makes for very short readable code.

I agree that templates are handy for separation of concerns though.

Wow, what a douchebag.

Yes. Language warring with extra nerd-rage.