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:
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 …
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 …
In June of this year, I spent a few hours formulating a dynamic cousin to Duby. Duby, if you don't remember, is a static-typed language with Ruby's syntax and Java's type system. Duby supports all Ruby's literals, uses local type inference (only argument types *must* be declared), and runs as fast as Java (because it…
In information theory, entropy is the measurement of the amount of randomness in a probability distribution. It's defined as In my code, it'...
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In November 2001 I gave an invited talk at the inaugural Lightweight Languages conference that has since become somewhat notorious (in netspace, it is said to be “ kickassing genial ”).
A lot of people remarked that in my post on Tail Recursion Elimination I confused tail self-recursion with other tail calls, which proper T...
I recently posted an entry in my Python History blog on the origins of Python's functional features . A side remark about not supporting ta...
(These are some notes I made for a panel discussion on programming language design at MIT on May 10, 2001.) 1. Programming Languages Are for People. Programming languages are how people talk to computers. The computer would be just as happy speaking any language that was unambiguous. The reason we have high level…
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