Programming

Writing software is hard sometimes. Links Dear Internet advertising industry: It’s over between us Shared with: Public

Executive summary: Perl is awesome, Java sucks, and there are also some other programming languages. This certainly fits with my experiences. They’ve been a bit more scientific and pedantic. Enjoy. Links Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++, Lua, tcl, javascript and Java comparison Shared with: Public, Paul Fernandez +1’d by: Brandy Butler, tony d, Paul Fernandez Comments Paul Fernandez - 2013-07-17T04:39:28Z As a Perl lover, this is great. As a skeptic, I wonder if this is all on the level. He seems to have pro-Perl/anti-Java bias…Chicks, did you write this? :) ...

So you’re telling me I could have created Toy Story on my +Commodore 64 in 1984? Now I feel even more like a slacker. Links Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes - Slashdot Shared with: Public, Commodore 64

“Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles” should benefit all software developers. I like this summary of the talk. Apparently he dissed emacs and some of the LWN readers are miffy about it. vim ftw! Links ELC: SpaceX lessons learned [LWN.net] Shared with: Public

So open source world, regarding that $2B value I’ve received, well now I’ve paid back $1. Cool? Links chicks-net’s profile on GitHub Shared with: Public +1’d by: John McWade Update 2025-12-16 I feel I have given a few dollars since then and I have a few more to give. It is strange and neat to be looking back on this after 14 years, during a year where I have ramped up my rate and quality of contributions to the free software and open source communities. ...