July 2011
2 posts
Guido van Rossum, 9 March 2011
This text is my personal transcription of a talk that Guido gave in Atlanta before PyCon. I tried very hard to make it exact, but I’m sure elisions and inaccuracies crept in, as I was typing very fast for a very long time :)
What’s wrong with Perl?
This was a long time ago. Perl in 1988 had only one hundred-screen long manpage, and its design offended my sensibilities. In 1988 and...
Javascript: Consoles and First-class Functions
I’ve been writing a lot of Javascript lately. It’s a lot more fun when you treat it as a real programming language (which it is) and not that horrible thing that’s shoved inside all the browsers. It’s also a lot more fun when you decide that nothing but the most recent versions of Firefox and Chrome exist, which leads me to my first topic.
Javascript Shells
Both the...