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I can write a program in Java about twice as fast as as I can write the same program C or C++, and I can bang out the same program in Python maybe twice again as fast as I can in Java. In Python, you just get straight to the point and say what you mean by saying things like:
My first major experiment has been in improving the commenting system on this blog.
I found a really nice video lecture on JavaScript. I'm a JavaScript journeyman myself so I decided to review it to learn something new. I have written about JavaScript in the past -- the previous post on JavaScript was "Learning JavaScript through Video Lectures". This lecture is given by JavaScript guru Doug...
Name the most widely used bytecode interpreter or virtual machine. Sun's JVM? Adobe's Flash? .NET and Mono? Perl? Python? PHP? These are all certainly popular, but there's one more widely used than all those combined. That bytecode interpreter is Henry Spencer's regular expression library and its many descendants.
Disclaimers Edit (2009/08/04): It is not obvious for many readers that this blog and its articles are meant as opinion piece. It is also not obvious that I like both languages. Just to be clear, I …
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I've been on vacation and just got back and heard about this whole Richard Stallman spouting nonsense about Miguel being a traitor thing and...
whereiwrite.org is a photographic project showing science fiction writers and their offices. I started wondering what the offices of other microISVs and small software companies look like. Were the…
My musings on Emacs, economics, technology, and spiders.
I've turned off that old server. If you're missing something, ping me and I'll dig it up.
Compleat is an easy, declarative way to add smart tab completion for any shell command. It’s written in Haskell but requires no programming knowledge. See the GitHub repository for a quick description, or read on for a complete explanation.
I’ve read a few comments about why Haskell is awesome. I even wrote an ironic blog post about it. Today I’m going to explain why I use Haskell for doing real work, entirely in terms of …
