I have to admit, I'm not the biggest fan of Python's BDFL, but this post kinda typifies it: IronPython in Action and the Decline of Windows. You see, he discusses the tedium of constructing a GUI in Windows, and this is really ironic considering that Python is definitely a language that allows some "dynamic hacks" and metaprogramming opportunities ( Read more... )

Java is too academic. I don't know what's most disturbing about that post:

• I didn't see the "problem" at first.
• My second thought: I should mark off points for not using generics.
• Its in Java
• The uncanny similarity it has to the "formatters" I have created with my HTML Formatting Combinator library.
• That my imp of the perverse was going to have me post ( Read more... )

Recently there's been a tempest in teacup over tail call optimization in Python: here and finally, Guido lays the smack down completely here.

By "lay the smack down" I mean "invokes Dictator rules and says no TCO in Python".

Which is a) a shame and b) completely unsurprising.

Now, I saw a link to this post that expresses Guido's point better, ( Read more... )

Okay, I have, for a while now, understood the notion that some "types" can become rather long(exponential even in comparison to the code), and thus, realized that type inference is a useful tool in dealing with the fact that the types can become a PITA in to write down in the code ( Read more... )