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Hash tables revisted

Just a quick note, I wanted to point this paper out to everyone here. Basically, the author demonstrates a [...]
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Worse is not better!

This is something that has been bothering me for a while. Never, with the possible exception of “Democrats are [...]
Posted in Programming Language Punditry | 3 Comments

Scala: Post-Functional, Post-Modern, or Just Perl++?

Protip to Scala people: If one of the fundamental stunts of a style is pervasive in all the code but yours, you're not in the same style of programming.
Also posted in Classic, Perl | Tagged , , | 76 Comments

My question on Go

Algol-2009 aka Google Go causes Brian thoughts on systems programming languages and how to apply optimizations.
Also posted in Classic | 18 Comments

New PeriodicalUpdater Feature, and, Mutable Data Sucks: A Case in Point

The jQuery PeriodicalUpdater, which has been getting lots of love because of feedback and support over here, has a new [...]
Also posted in Open Source | 3 Comments