The Minority Report

Wesley J. Chun brings us a twelve page article on the changes to the Python programming language in version 3. I’m guessing these changes have been discussed for a while due to this Python Regrets document from Guido van RossumW back in 2002. p.s. I think I’m running out of “clever” Python headlines… p.p.s. Guido [...]

Linux New Media AG has presented its annual awards for outstanding contributions to Open Source at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover, Germany. Knoppix inventor Klaus Knopper handed over the Best Open Source Programming Language prize, this year hotly disputed among the jury. The distinction went to Python. “The thing can do anything,” Knopper expressed. Martin von [...]

I love the fact that LISP seems to be making a comeback. I know that some would say that LISP never went away but to see more and more blogs talking about the benefits of LISP vs. other languages makes my heart sing. LISP is the first language that I truly “programmed” in and although [...]

duketek has posted today about what programming language he should pick up to develop casual games. I’ve clipped just about the entire post here but be a dear and visit his blog to comment on what language/platform you think is the best for casual game development. Personally, I’m curious about what programming setup you need [...]

I love programming languages (read scripting languages) and I have tried to write “Hello World” in as many as I can. It’s fun actually. Here is a new one that I’ve not heard of until today. Frankly, I’ve been getting sick of the Alphabet languagesI’ve been getting sick of the Alphabet languages (C, C++, C#, [...]

Matt Cutts, Google Engineer extraordinaire, posted this today about driving Google Spreadsheets with Python. Pretty cool. I did some searching and found this page, which quickly led me to the Python Developer’s Guide for the Google Spreadsheet API. There’s a simple “Getting started with Gdata and Python” page. The upshot is 1) make sure you [...]