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Maybe. Not convinced it'd be best for Canada, though. I think California would be better as an independent country that we could then negotiate with on more or less equal footing.

You bring up an interesting issue with equalization payments. California would be a "Have" province and hefty transfer payments would probably be expected.

But mostly, I'm just concerned that California would immediately become the dominant political entity in Confederation. Right now, the centre of the world is basically Toronto. Suddenly, the financial, technological, and industrial centre of Canada would all be in California. I can't see that going super well. People and businesses would migrate en masse. It could lead to an impoverishment of other Canadian provinces as the capital all moves to California.

Population, GDP, culture.. Canada would be eaten alive by California. They wouldn't change. We would.

FVO readable for future me, it's not so bad. I don't have to worry about other people so much. :)

Inert silicon, might as well be forever!

I'm not in favour of this, as a Canadian. The power imbalance is too great. It would make Canada a Californian state, rather than California a Canadian province. They would never accept rule from Ottawa.

Sure. Nothing stopping you writing readable well commented perl. Just avoid some of the more terse statements. It can be a challenge though.

Shrug. If you don't like Perl, don't use it.

It certainly has its issues. I find that the things people have trouble with are the things I tend to like about it. Of course, reading it later is a problem sometimes. :)

Write only language!

I still reach for it sometimes.

heheh. I wasn't really making an argument though

perl -e 'print "fart\n" if 1;'

Cupcake in a jar <3

That would work too. Lots of great potential choices.

Argument?