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All roads lead to lisp?

Posted in Python, workfriendly, programming, ruby, lisp on Jun 21st, 2006 Comments

I started programming seriously when I was at school. I became seduced by the idea of writing games and ended up learning 6502 and then ARM assembler. I sort of skipped the typically-british BBC BASIC introduction because I was impatient and had read in my Dad’s computer magazines that real games didn’t get written in […]

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Ruby and Python

Posted in General, Python, ruby on Apr 27th, 2006 Comments

I’ve been playing with Ruby a bit recently. The big question: is the language better than python ? For me it comes down to a punchup between 2 killer features: Ruby’s blocks vs Python’s whitespace-indent magic.
Ruby’s smalltalk style blocks are great - they neatly support looping, closures and resource management idioms in one simple powerful […]

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