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Two things every Unix developer should know
Unix programming can be tricky. There are many subtleties many developers are not aware of. In this post, I will describe just two of them.....
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 141 posts.
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Modern Perl: The Book: The (draft) PDF
Update: Modern Perl: the book is out! Skip the draft and download the real thing. I've finished writing and editing Modern Perl: The Book, and it's gone into production, which means that Onyx Neon is preparing a print-ready PDF to...
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PyPy 1.2 Released
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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The Most Useful Objective-C Code I’ve Ever Written
Actually, it’s the most useful code I’ve extended ; credit for the core idea goes to Dave Dribin with his Handy NSString Conversion Macro .
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An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
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Introduction to Pyjamas
Create, build, and maintain websites and web apps that run in a browser.
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Jim Hugunin leaves Microsoft and IronPython
Today marks the end of a crazy six year journey for me at Microsoft. I clearly remember my brutal first 8 months at this company as I worked with lawyers, marketing folks and execs to figure out if and how we could release IronPython as an open source project from Microsoft. The final approval for that release came…
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The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions
A question is infrequently answered either because few people know the answer or because it concerns an obscure, subtle point (but a point that may be crucial to you). I thought I had invented the term for my Java IAQ , but it also shows up at the very informative About.com Urban Legends site. There are lots of Python…
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Clojure.rb
Call me crazy, but it seems that there is a large influx of Ruby programmers exploring the Clojure programming language. Based on the results of Chas Emerick’s great State of Clojure - Summer 2010 survey , 17% of surveyed Clojure users come from a Ruby background. Based on observed trends, I expect that percentage to…
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Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice
First Shugo announced them at RubyKaigi. Then Matz showed some improved syntax at RubyConf. But what are refinements [http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4085] all about, and what would they be used for? The first thing you need to understand is that the purpose of refinements in Ruby
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The Future of Compiler Optimization
Hello, My name is Nadav and I am a PhD candidate, researching compilers for embedded systems and high-level synthesis. This is an excellent post and I enjoyed reading it. I have a few comments. 1. I agree about verification and optimization joining forces. We already see it to some extent with compiler warnings. 2…
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Real Go Projects: SmartTwitter and web.go
How Michael Hoisie used Go to build SmartTwitter and web.go.
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Get Ready For C# 4.0
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Lisp compiler in 89 lines of Python
Tim Lopez published an elegant and tiny LISP interpreter for Python on his blog. Inspired by Norvig’s Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. I developed an interpreter as well as a…