5 month ago
Andy Baio : Piet, a graphical programming language, with source code resembling abstract art - named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE [via]
nelson : Piet language - Programming language whose programs are 2d images
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6 month ago
nelson : Ruby's not ready - Flamebait, no doubt, but some insightful criticisms
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18 month ago
nelson : From Ruby to Python - Longtime Ruby fan switches because of runtime implementation problems
Jeremy Zawodny : Python up, Ruby down: If that runtime don't work, then its bound to drizzown - Python up, Ruby down: If that runtime don't work, then its bound to drizzown: an interesting story of how the Ruby runtime ultimately drove one hacker into the arms of Python
deusx : Python up, Ruby down: If that runtime don't work, then its bound to drizzown - "I’m not taking a “wait and hope” attitude like some others, hoping that someone else will fix my problems. I’m circumventing them altogether. Above all other things professional, I have a job to do and employers to report to."
jcgregorio : Python up, Ruby down: If that runtime don't work, then its bound to drizzown - ""This past week, I switched from programming in Ruby to programming in Python."" First such thread I've seen not overwhelmed with Ruby fanboys. They may have just had their comments removed too.
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23 month ago
jimray : FSI Language Courses > Home - Free foreign language courses
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jcgregorio : PHP Succeeding Where Java Has Failed - ""Essential redux: Each PHP guy gets more done in a day than two Java guys get done in a week.""
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23 month ago
jcgregorio : ongoing · Java Is Free - """I have one concrete hope: that the people working on the GNU/Linux desktop can be unshackled from the tyranny of C++."""
Simon Willison : Java Is Free - GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.
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23 month ago
jcgregorio : O'Reilly Radar > State of the Computer Book Market, Q306, Part 2 - Ruby book sales rate of growth falls 430% to 255%. It appears the "former smalltalker" market is about tapped out.
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23 month ago
jcgregorio : BlueBookImplementationTOC - Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation
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24 month ago
jcgregorio : O'Reilly Radar > Cobol: The Undead Language
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24 month ago
jcgregorio : Joel on Software : Book Review : Beyond Java - "On page 56 and page 57, Steve Yegge, who didn’t actually write the book, but plays an important walk-on role, bangs out the list. These are actually the most important two pages of the book, because these are the things that Python and Ruby (and,
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25 month ago
jcgregorio : use Perl | Larry Wall's presentation at OSDC::Israel::2006
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25 month ago
deusx : Joel on Software - Language Wars - Err... what? "FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5."
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30 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : World of Warcraft language translation wiki - (via Negatendo) [via]
deusx : Project Azeroth - A World of Warcraft Translation Wiki - "Each Race speaks an individual language. The correlation is as follows"
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32 month ago
kayodeok : Global spread of English 'a threat to UK' - The global dominance of English, which has brought economic and cultural benefit to Britain for the past 100 years, now poses a major threat to the UK's international standing, according to research published today
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Learn Python in 10 minutes - This tutorial will attempt to teach you Python in 10 minutes. It's probably not so much a tutorial as it is a cross between a tutorial and a cheatsheet
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34 month ago
kayodeok : Lost in Translation - This site serves as an example of a dynamic web application. It uses HTML and a simple form processing program written in Perl. I don't know how to translate between five different languages, so I get translations from BabelFish instead. My program is mer
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Kids Programming Language - Kid’s Programming Language (KPL) was designed and developed based on the principle that programming is fun - and that learning is best achieved when the learning material is fun, intuitive and interactive
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Koders - Source Code Search Engine - Koders.com is the leading search engine for open source code. Our source code optimized search engine provides developers with an easy-to-use interface to search for source code examples and discover new open source projects which can be leveraged in the
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38 month ago
kayodeok : NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation Results - The objective of the MT evaluation series is to develop technologies that convert free text from a variety of languages into English
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Ruby, Python, "Power" - A comparison between Ruby and Python
Simon Willison : Ruby, Python, "Power" - AN excellent comparison of various language features.
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38 month ago
kayodeok : Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
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39 month ago
kayodeok : HumanML: The Vision - The ability to leverage open standards to improve communications human-to-human, human-to-machine and machine-to-machine is becoming crucial to both the public and private sectors
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39 month ago
kayodeok : syntax across languages - Syntax across various programming languages
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40 month ago
kayodeok : The Origins and Common Usage of British Swear-words - This entry discusses the etymology and application of a selection of words that, to varying degrees, can be considered vulgar or offensive
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41 month ago
Andy Baio : Philipp Lenssen's thoughts on Google's language translation tools - their new efforts could be a step toward a working Babel Fish
kayodeok : Google Translator: The Universal Language - "Google used the United Nations Documents to train their machine, and all in fed 200 billion words. This is brute force AI, if you want - it works on statistical learning theory only and has not much real "understanding" of anything but patterns"
jimray : Google Translator: The Universal Language - Add some text to speech, miniaturize and the babelfish is real
Simon Willison : Google Translator: The Universal Language - Their new approach to translation is utterly brilliant. (via) [via]
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