Month: January 2008

  • @adrianh suggests looking more at Parrot Compiler Toolkit … which is very cool. I’m finding that language design is hard. Not just the implementation part (although that’s hard too) … but just figuring out how to make a syntax that allows all the things you’d expect to be done in an elegant way. I’m starting…

  • Ian Bicking on what PHP deployment gets right.

  • I’m playing with pipelining in Python over on Composing.

  • Here’s an interesting question (after reading this). Why does anyone want to write “large” programs? Everyone knows large programs are difficult to build and maintain. Want we want is *small* programs that happen to be powerful (do a lot) and scale over large numbers of users. Is there any reason to think that “large” program…

  • Discipulus, patterns for programmers.

  • Python on Silverlight? I’m intrigued despite myself.