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I'm happy to hear that. I already made light table my main IDE for tinkering and solving 4clojure assignments. For the most part I've dumped emacs/SLIME for everything but lazy seq…

Really nice summary, Chas ;). I hope I haven't spoiled the statistics by filling in "just started" - the same response as the last year. I guess some of us are start over all the t…

Writing tree structures is always fun. Writing it in an optimized way is a lot of work though. And what's worse one needs to reimplement quite a few things if the problem solved by…

If RAM clocked higher and pushed closer to a processing cpu would make everything 50 times faster it'd still need 20 times as much silicon. Considering ideal heat dissipation such …

I wonder how many of (quite a few) unique newspeak features will Dart sport. My gut feelings are that Google will try to please mainstream instead. That'd be unfortunate but if thi…

Fantom ( http://fantom.org/ ) also compiles to javascript. However this platform is supported via direct AST transformation not runtime bytecode generation as for JVM or CLR.

Disregarding some unsuccessful attempts in BASIC on a ZX-81 clone I learned programming from a Borland´s Turbo C manual (a Christmas present for our new shiny AMD 386). I was 15 or…

I lurk there here and there for a few months and I can assure you that you are wrong. Unless you classify puppies, jokes and lolcats as such.

People will pay for anything apparently. This idea is not even original. Try again here http://www.lastpicstanding.com/

Yeah, a post like that would be really great. I do that for my side projects and the slow down caused by having normal working hours and not all weekends "free" for work is just te…