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PyPy 2.1 – Considered ARMful
We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.1, which targets version 2.7.3 of the Python language. This is the first release with official support for...
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The most popular blog posts about programming languages on Hacker News. 227 posts.
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Writing HTTP Middleware in Go
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.
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The web.py Philosophy
The web.py slogan is: “Think about the ideal way to write a web app. Write the code to make it happen.”
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On Scala
This is one of a series of posts on languages, you can read more about that here . Scala's blending of programming paradigms in a single language is impressive. It's fun to write code in and is a good language for leaning into the functional plus static typing paradigm. As much as I like
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High school programming taught in Haskell in Argentina
Today I want to share a wonderful experience. I'm professor of introductory programming in two years at Florentino Ameghino School and one...
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FasterCGI with HHVM
Today, we are happy to announce FastCGI support for HHVM. FastCGI is a popular protocol for communication between an application server (e.g. running your PH...
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On calculating Fibonacci numbers in C
A few months ago Evan Miller wrote an essay called The Mathematical Hacker . While an interesting post he does make a mistake when he gives ...
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List Comprehensions in Eight Lines of Clojure
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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How Go uses Go to build itself
This post is based on a talk I gave to the Sydney Go users group in mid April 2013 describing the Go build process.
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String types are fine. How about your code?
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…
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PHP 5.5.5 Released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released
Ruby 2.0.0-rc2 is released. This will be the last release candidate ofRuby 2.0.0.
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Why I still love Perl
At the very beginning, I should probably make it clear that this post is not a declaration of exclusivity in my relationship to Perl. I love programming languages. I first learned to program about the same time I first learned to read (English) and first studied French. My love for programming languages is very much…
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Porting to Python 3 Redux
Some updated tips for porting software to Python 3.