redundancy

I love Ruby, for past couple of years it is my language of choice. But even since I started learning it, I was repelled with the fact that so often there are several ways to do the same (or equivalent) thing. I'll give couple of examples: methods often have aliases, so you always have to bother to choose the most adequate, popular or commonly accepted alternative and and or , besides && and || - just look at how much confusion precedence difference among them causes for keyword, used almost exclusively by inexperienced non-native Ruby developers What was the rationale behind such design

We use Azure Backup and set our backup vaults to use GRS. We want to use LRS instead. It is understood that this cannot be changed once machines have been added to the vault, and we need to start from scratch. Two questions: Do I need to remove the current vault first before I set up a new vault for that same server? Can the current backups be transferred to the new vault? Changing a Recovery Service Vault's storage replication type can be achieved via the Portal or PowerShell. Unfortunately, this option is greyed-out in the Portal, and whilst the cmdlet successfully executes, it doesn't

I've built and installed (under the prefix ~/alt ) LLVM-Clang trunk (23 apr 2012) successfully using GCC-4.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 and in turn libc++ using this Clang-build. When I want to use it I have to supply both -lc++ and -libstdc++ as follows /home/per/alt/bin/clang -x c++ -I/home/per/alt/include/v1 -L/home/per/alt/lib -std=gnu++0x -g -Wall ~/f.cpp -lm -lc++ -lstdc++ -lpthread -o f to compile f.cpp containing #include <iostream> using std::cout; using std::endl; int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { cout << "sxx" << endl; return 0; } If I omit -lstdc++ I get the link error /home/per/alt