A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog
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It’s definitely SdiDesk week this week. Watch the repository.
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PythonCard, the Hypercard / VB-like python development environment maybe being forked and revivified.
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Interesting new Subtext programming language presentation. (Schematic Graphs)
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Quick answer to the guy who used yesterday’s Form Experiment to ask what’s happening with SdiDesk … Here’s the status report : 1) In the last couple of weeks I quit my job and moved back to the UK … which has been taking up quite a lot of my time and energy. 2) Once…
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Interesting. Reia’s Tony Arcieri debunks Erlang’s “single assignment” propaganda. I guess someone could argue that once you have multiple assignment you’re going to be more tempted to write a longer chain of actions as a sequence of statements rather than composing it out of multiple functions … and this may be a bad thing. But…
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Follow on from yesterday’s “Python / Haskell crossbreed” post. Both Al “Folknology” and Gleber point me at the Reia programming language. A Python / Ruby like scripting language on top of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (Erlang’s parallel virtual machine). Very sweet … I’ve subscribed to the mailing list to find out more.
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Prediction I made : I predict that in five years time, the hot language will either be a version of Python which has adopted ideas (Pattern matching arguments, Monads, immutability etc.) from Haskell; or a Haskell-like language which has borrowed some syntactic sugar from Python. Don’t know if I entirely believe that, but it’s a…
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Alternatives to Google Application Engine
Got any book recommendations?