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Python is dynamically, strongly typed. It cares a lot about the types of its objects, you can't just mix and match at will. Perhaps you meant statically typed?

Back in the day, around 1998/1999, Oracle had tools to develop Web-applications served directly from the database. To produce HTML one would use a variety of PL/SQL functions, one …

I like to structure my code as an outline. Helps readability, quick visual hint of structure and i don't have to keep track of open-end brackets. Though i much prefer spaces to tab…

I like this approach. We did something similar, but for a position as support engineer, where coding ability was one of the requirements, though not the only one. They were given a…

I agree and I don't fully understand the why of it. I remember coding PL/SQL to emmit HTML in Oracle around 1999 or 2000 and using functions to code the various elements. That got …

One or two decades ago I read on some newsgroup on the internet (and having experienced it myself), that Neal Stephensons storylines never actually

Apparently, Reason 12 runs well https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

Here is an example of an old technology TAL -Template Attribute Language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language which happens to have an (also old) implementat…

Wouldn't readlink -f $0 work to get the actual location of the script, and from there get the base for relative scripts?

Would love to be able to run this on "junk" hardware, say, a super old, 32-bit obsolete Netgear router, etc. Not necessarily for networking purposes, but just to be able to leverag…