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70 votes

Has any language become greatly popular for something other than its intended purpose?

programming-languages history asked May 30, 2011 at 5:59
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35 votes

Should the punctuation surrounding the italicised words be italicised as well?

punctuation italics style-manuals asked Jan 25, 2011 at 4:59
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34 votes

Intuition for multiple temporal dimensions

spacetime time dimensions asked Nov 3, 2012 at 2:27
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27 votes

What is an appropriate level of granularity for component-based architecture?

architecture entity-system component-based asked Jul 8, 2011 at 3:18
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26 votes

Resolving a Circular Dependency between Template Classes

c++ templates circular-dependency asked Jul 28, 2010 at 14:24
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26 votes

Send, sent; end, *ent?

verbs pronunciation old-english middle-english asked Oct 9, 2011 at 2:36
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25 votes

The idiom “be a thing”

etymology idioms language-evolution asked Jan 1, 2014 at 20:20
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24 votes

How can I make C++0x and __STRICT_ANSI__ get along?

c++ gcc c++0x mingw gnu asked Apr 7, 2011 at 12:20
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23 votes

"Maybe" versus "perhaps"

adverbs asked Feb 16, 2011 at 17:42
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21 votes

How do I go about writing a programming language specification?

programming-languages documentation standardization asked Dec 3, 2010 at 19:58
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Is it unusual for a small company (15 developers) not to use managed source/version control?
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How do you achieve a numeric versioning scheme with Git?
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148
How to forward declare a template class in namespace std?
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Why do C++ libraries and frameworks never use smart pointers?
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Did English ever have a formal version of "you"?
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Why is the minus sign, '-', generally not overloaded in the same way as the plus sign?
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106
Why is 0 false?
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Substitute X for Y
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Developing a feature which sole purpose to be taken out?
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C++ Filehandling: Difference between ios::app and ios::ate?
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89
What is a higher kinded type in Scala?
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What makes a language Turing-complete?
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How do the tens­es and as­pects in English cor­re­spond tem­po­ral­ly to one an­oth­er?
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Haskell - guard inside case statement
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In C, how would I choose whether to return a struct or a pointer to a struct?
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65
How much is too much with C++11 auto keyword?
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Is it "falsy" or "falsey"?
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C isn't that hard: void ( *( *f[] ) () ) ()
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63
how to test a string for letters only
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63
Is "authentification" a real word?
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Why might it be difficult to make a 64 bit version of a program?
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58
Is there a word for this emotion? Resentment over someone's good fortune without wanting it - Not quite jealousy/envy
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The most mind-bending programming language?
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54
"used without template parameters"
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Is there a rule about double negations that aren't meant as double negations (e.g. "We don't need no education")?
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53
Why don't Spanish words start with "sp"?
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Haskell guards on lambda functions?
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Can manager classes be a sign of bad architecture?
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How to make the switch to C++11?
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"you" versus "You" as polite form of writing
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