In his History of Python: Introduction and Overview, Guido van Rossum repeats the confusion between “scripting” and “dynamic” languages:
Python is currently one of the most popular dynamic programming languages, along with Perl, Tcl, PHP, and newcomer Ruby. Although it is often viewed as a “scripting” language, it is really a general purpose programming language along […]
Crack.NET « Josh Smith on WPF - “Crack.NET is a runtime debugging and scripting tool I made that gives you access to the internals of any .NET desktop application running on your computer.” Greasemonkey for .NET. I wish something like this existed for gobject.
Room 101: We have Good news, and we have Bad news - […]
X.Org Wiki - XKB - “The XKB data files for the various keyboard models, layouts, and locales are now maintained by the X Keyboard Config project on freedesktop.org” At last, some configuration help for xkb.
The Perry Bible Fellowship - Today’s My Birthday
kenodoxia: Why feel guilty? - Richard Dawkins, for example, reveals his guilty pleasure is […]
Bolus of nonsense | New Humanist - “Why not heat the water for one’s coffee and shower by dancing in a circle or sacrificing a virgin?”
Clojure » state - A great article on the design behind Clojure’s approach to identity and state.
Moose analysis technology: Code City - CodeCity is written by Richard Wettel and is […]
Pierre-Luc Beaudoin » libchamplain - Libchamplain is a C library aimed to provide a Gtk+ widget to display rasterized maps.
The State of the Language: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup - “rvalue references are very much a “technical extension” meant to be invisible to 99.9 percent of programmers. Their main effect will be some speedup in […]