For the first time since the start of the TIOBE index nearly 20 years ago, Java and C don't make up the top 2 positions any more. C is still number one, but it is Python that claims the second position now. Some say that Python's recent... (more…)
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To this “researcher”, even a job not worth doing was worth overdoing. Here’s what you can learn from the incident… (more…)
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This page is about pypy-stm, a special in-development version of
PyPy which can run multiple independent CPU-hungry threads in the same
process in parallel. It is a solution to what is known in the Python
world as the “global interpreter lock (GIL)” prob... (more…)
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The conflict between subclassing and composition is as old as object-oriented programming. The latest crop of languages like Go or Rust prove that you don’t need subclassing to successfully write code. But what’s a pragmatic approach to subclassing in Pyt... (more…)
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Eggex is Oil's regular expression syntax. You may want to skim the headings
of the eggex doc if it's unfamiliar. (more…)
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