Category Archives: Programming Language Punditry

Hash tables revisted

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 17, 2010

Just a quick note, I wanted to point this paper out to everyone here. Basically, the author demonstrates a denial of service attack using engineered hash collisions to force the programs into worst case behavior situations, just like I commented way back then. And I’m not sure how much faith I’d put into a new [...]

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Worse is not better!

By Brian Hurt | Published: March 11, 2010

This is something that has been bothering me for a while. Never, with the possible exception of “Democrats are weak” (thank god we had a real conservative as president when we fought global fascism, and not some lilly livered spineless liberal Democrat), have I ever seen a baseless criticism be so eagerly adopted by those [...]

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

By Robert Fischer | Published: March 6, 2010

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 , , | 85 Comments

My question on Go

By Brian Hurt | Published: November 22, 2009

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

By Robert Fischer | Published: November 6, 2009

The jQuery PeriodicalUpdater, which has been getting lots of love because of feedback and support over here, has a new feature. The “data” configuration argument now will work properly with numbers and anonymous functions. This means that you can have your periodical updater send different information across in different runs. I’ve said before that null [...]

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