This week, we:

• got 12,100 messages from 261 different IP addresses.
• handled 22,629 sessions from 2,180 different IP addresses.
• received 434,144 connections from at least 121,837 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 31 connections being checked at once.

So much for any chance that volume would go down compared to last week . I believe that the highersession volume is at least partly

Here's a thesis: in the current environment, there are threesignificant ecological niches for general purpose languages. They canbe expressed as combinations of features:

1. low level, with strong control over what happens when you do things;such a language is above all predictable by default: C, C++
2. loose control (with features such as garbage collection), butstatically and strongly typed for compile-time assurance: Java, C#
3. loose control and dynamically typed: Python, Ruby

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