Tag: python
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This is an absolutely brilliant summary of the virtues of PHP. The important point is that these virtues aren’t going away. By comparison this seems to miss the point. In 2020 we won’t be programming the web with an advanced Python framework (wonderful as python is). We’ll have something which does what PHP did for…
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A quick thought … working with a lot of Django and Pinax at the moment, I’m seeing a lot of use of Python’s varargs. Functions that just take *argv, **kwargs I find I don’t like this. I want to see argument lists as explicit as possible. I feel uncomfortable and a bit lost. I feel…
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Oh God! Beards of Python Compare and contrast
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It just occurred to me … Bespin’s back-end server. Google Application Engine. Enso. Python really is what the cool kids are doing these days, isn’t it? Python + javascript, of course.
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This is possibly the best StackOverflow thread ever (on the quirks of Python closures)
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Python 3000 released
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I didn’t know some of these great Python features.
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PythonCard, the Hypercard / VB-like python development environment maybe being forked and revivified.
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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.