miniblog.

I'm surprised by how many different weather forecasts I can get out different apps. Surely there aren't many API providers for weather predictions? Alternative conspiracy theory: do weather apps that predict nicer weather get more downloads?

"If it compiles it probably works" is definitely more common in some languages. What PL features make this more likely? My current theory is that pattern matching on enums with exhaustiveness checking is the primary cause. Especially when null has been replaced with Option.

It's weird how ! denotes side effects when it's allowed in names (Scheme, Ruby) but there isn't a clear equivalent in other languages. My only theory is that "side effects" is often vague. list-add!, table-drop! and ping! are very different effects.