Lambda the Ultimate

i figure this has come up before, but i'd like to note that it is frustrating to reply to something on a page and lose all of the *** reminders of what i haven't read on that page.

Naturally in this day and age, the path to understanding the past and future goes through twitter.

Now here is the challenge, in order to make this more exciting: What we really need is a statistical analysis of the #code2009 and #code2010 streams (and in particular, their differences). The goal is to post code that does this analysis in the most elegant and succinct way; naturally using the langues du jour earns bonus points.