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Red Meat Friday: Python Is Not a Great Language

Posted on 2021-03-12 by jcs

Robin Thomas says that Python is not a great programming language and offers 11 reasons why it isn’t. Reaction was swift and virulent, proving he might have been on to something when he wrote, “Pythonists have a bit of a … Continue reading →

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Regular Expressions in 30 Lines of C

Posted on 2020-02-17 by jcs

I recently saw a pointer to a nice article by Brian Kernighan that describes some beautiful code written by Rob Pike for their book The Practice of Programming. As an example of the power of notation, they wanted to show … Continue reading →

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Another Great Example of Recursion

Posted on 2020-01-27 by jcs

Remember how I told you that Joe Marshall was really good at coming up with elegant examples of recursion? He’s back with another. This time it’s not one he thought up but it’s too good not to share. Here’s the … Continue reading →

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Premature Optimization and Bugs

Posted on 2016-02-17 by jcs

All developers are aware of Knuth’s warning about the dangers of premature optimization. Yesterday, I ran across two posts that nicely illustrate those dangers in the wild. The first is a tweet that explains why Unix files that begin with … Continue reading →

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And By the Way…

Posted on 2014-09-13 by jcs

…Happy Programmers’ Day.

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