Piling in on the UKC reunion.

Studied Computer Systems Engineering from 2003 - 2007. Always looked forward to Winston Waller's lectures, which typically involved regailing us of control systems he built for various breweries.

Not sure why this got so heavily downvoted, let people reminisce.

You could argue that anything man-made is "chimp-derived".

I'm looking forward to playing with this.

Coming from a C-style language background, I've always found the syntax of languages such as Haskell and ML to be alien, to the point that I can't get my head into learning one of them, despite their obvious power and utility.

I've been looking for some kind of C-style dialect for one of these languages for a long time, so thank you very much for creating this.

At the risk of hijacking this thread; is anyone here aware of other projects for Haskell or other languages that achieve a similar goal?

ReasonML is similar. What do you find confusing about the syntax? Imo, Haskell/ML syntax is more readable and lightweight than traditional C-style syntax.

"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind."

Oh Woz, you're so confused. You want the Internet to stay unregulated, yet are in favour of Net Neutrality?

The pipes themselves must not be regulated based on the content. In other words, freedom for users, not necessarily for ISPs.

What difference between end-users and ISPs means that one party may have freedom but the other may not?

The difference is that we give ISP's the use of our countries spectrum. Without that, they wouldn't have a business. So it's fair that we can prevent them from screwing us through regulation.

If we are talking wireless, then you might have a point, but you can always lay more wire.

True but it's easier said than done. The huge cost involved in laying more wire is a big barrier to entry. And I would guess there are limits to the amount of cable that can be laid.

What difference between government and individuals?

Monopoly on violence.

Wow, I've been looking for something like this for a while now, and this is _really_ impressive. Good work!

"I can't prove it through fact, but I feel it to be true."

Not subscribing to malice what can explained by stupidity is just a feeling too.

The question is: do you believe the perpetrator to be malicious or dumb?

It's not a "feeling" when all evidence points to the fact that, like every security vulnerability ever, a feature was added that had unintended consequences. There's no way it's malicious: Ubisoft can't do anything with this that they can't do everywhere else in the actual applications themselves!

Who says it was malicious on Ubisoft's part? It could easily have been a rogue developer that saw an opportunity to install a backdoor on a ton of machines.

It could also have been the Russians, who planted a mole in Ubisoft's quality assurance division and, over time, laying low in a foreign country gaining the respect of his peers and bosses, slowly worked his way to the top of the food chain...

...where at last he installed his Russian Rootkit.

Or maybe some programmer added a feature that was insecure and they moved on to work on some bug that was crashing level three?

Usually both. (Note that with the internet you also have to be dumb, too, to believe you are not eventually going to be caught, no matter how malicious you are.)

That's not how reality (or science) works.

Both men applied their intellect to substantially improve the standard of living for the rest of mankind.

I think that Lithium (www.lithify.me) would be really great to mention under the 'popular frameworks' section.

Thanks for the suggestion. Feel free to send a pull request and I'll be happy to add it in!