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Python community, friends, fellow developers, we need to talk. On December 3rd, 2008 Python 3.0 was first released. At the time it was widely said that Python 3 adoption was going to be a long process, it was referred to as a five year process. We’ve just passed the five year mark.
Last week, someone posted a question on the Clojure group asking for a comparison between Clojure and Scala. Since my most popular blog pos...
Larry Wall released Perl to the public on December 18, 1987. Love it or hate it, Perl's influence is immense.
Classes encourage pervasive mutable state, provide only an indirect support for closures, and do not support algebraic data types. I'd like to fix that.
When I get stressed out and have too much to do, I have this paradoxical reaction where I escape from that by coming up with another thing to do. Usually it’s a tiny self-contained program that I can write and finish.
In the context of web development, "middleware" usually stands for "a part of an application that wraps the original application, adding additional functionality". It's a concept that usually seems to be somewhat underappreciated, but I think middleware is great.
With Scala you feel smart having just got something to work in a beautiful way but when you look around the room to tell your clojure colleague how clever you are, you notice he left 3 hours ago and there is a post-it saying use a Map. Daniel Worthington-Bodart
In Chapter 1 , I asserted that the grammar of Lisp is uniform: every expression is a list, beginning with a verb, and followed by some arguments. Evaluation proceeds from left to right, and every element of the list must be evaluated before evaluating the list itself. Yet we just saw, at the end of Sequences , an…
Someone on the internet says that strings are broken, and some more people on the internet disagree. The problem is that all kinds of common operations on strings, such as counting the amount of ch…
My previous article, “We don’t need a string type“, caused a bit of stir. Though the feedback is mixed, there is a common theme of a string being a useful feature. After doing a bit more research I can determine only one thing: most current string types are broken! Many of us believe our strings […]
Just a shiny demo or the future of browser computing?
Nowadays Python is probably the programming language of choice (besides R) for data scientists for prototyping, visualization, and running data analyses on small and medium sized data sets. And...
A couple nights ago I was looking over the UEFI spec, and I realized it shouldn't be too hard to write UEFI applications in Rust. It turns out, you can, and her…
LightTable, the famous innovative IDE (slash reactive work surface, as described by the author) recently got some pretty amazing additions: user defined plugins and user defined custom expressions.…
What is the most commonly used bytecode language in the world? Java (JVM Bytecode)? .NET (CLI)? Flash (AVM1/AVM2)? Nope. There’s a few that you use every day, simply by turning on your computer, or tablet, or even phone. You don’t even have to start an application or visit a webpage.
While none of the ideas in core.async are new, understanding how to solve problems with CSP is simply not as well documented as using plain callbacks or Promises . My previous posts have mostly explored fairly sophisticated uses of core.async , this post instead takes the form of a very basic tutorial on using…
We’ve learned the basics of Clojure’s syntax and evaluation model . Now we’ll take a tour of the basic nouns in the language.
This guide aims to introduce newcomers and experienced programmers alike to the beauty of functional programming, starting with the simplest building blocks of software. You’ll need a computer, basic proficiency in the command line, a text editor, and an internet connection. By the end of this series, you’ll have a…
