Nice to see it's documented...

But, which is the source of truth? You've now illustrated that they're different... There are advantages to javadoc systems. Where the documentation (online/offline/codeline) are all integrated...

• 5 weeks ago

Not that I track it... But, as I understand Python 2.6 is the end of the road for 2.X and the launching point for Python 3K migrations. Since the performance is consumed by the random package, it illustrates the problem in benchmarks more than languages.

• 10 weeks ago

I am aware of the "intention" of the language, but there are times that succinctness is useful. The biggest issue is that if the code ended up being something akin to this bit of perl.. (assuming that you need to extract the match group in each case)

if (/regex_one/) {

} elsif (/regex_two/) {

} elsif (/regex_three/) {

} elsif (/regex_four/) {

} elsif (/regex_five/) {

} elsif (/regex_six/) {

} else {

}

That the Python code would have indented half way across the screen, while the PHP or Perl code would have kept things a bit neater.

• 17 weeks ago

I am aware of the "intention" of the language, but there are times that succinctness is useful. The biggest issue is that if the code ended up being something akin to this bit of perl.. (assuming that you need to extract the match group in each case)

if (/regex_one/) {

} elsif (/regex_two/) {

} elsif (/regex_three/) {

} elsif (/regex_four/) {

} elsif (/regex_five/) {

} elsif (/regex_six/) {

} else {

}

That the Python code would have indented half way across the screen, while the PHP or Perl code would have kept things a bit neater.

• 17 weeks ago

I spend most of my days being front end and back end, working with a variety of technologies... Kinda fun, but find my life is "best" when I take a day to focus on one section of the problem space. Yesterday it was all about getting everything scripted under a single server framework (mail delivery, application server and queue management). Rather than intermix the box model and HTML issues in the the brain cells simultaniously.

Start-ups are fun.

• 18 weeks ago