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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Programming polyglossia ahead, new project
Thorbiorn has started the practical parts of his amazing programming language project called Project Polyglot. Read more at Thorbiorn’s now-actually-a-little-active weblog.
“The ball is rolling.”
[tags]programming,programminglanguages,projectpolyglot[/tags]
Pinter’s political stuff played in Malmö
A friend, who I met via Luisa, just sent me information about the stage design work she has done in the period of time. Keywords are, according to Sarah: Site-specific, literary, installations, video, and an amazing trombone player.
So, without much further ado, I hereby inform you, the interested public, that there is great possibility to [...]
A good book
Today I got “Fascicle 1″ of Don Knuth’s 1999 reworking of his classic 1960s work The Art of Computer Programming. Great book. No fuss, just stuff. I might write more about that here, if I keep reading it. It’s one of those books that are an experience to go through. Like GEB.
Knuth explains how a [...]
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What is an offline computer?
“Without Internet connection, it is only a DVD player.” Quoth Oscar Berg, a wiseguy.
Word to the wise.
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unix search-and-replace: rpl (and sed)
Evan showed the world his “weak Ruby script” to find-and-replace in multiple files, and was pointed to the amazing rpl utility.
Let’s see what the port maintainer has written about the rpl tool.
$ port info rpl
rpl 1.4.0, textproc/rpl (Variants: universal)
http://www.laffeycomputer.com/rpl.html
rpl is a Unix text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new
strings in multiple text [...]
IoPython, raw but cool
I nosed around in Io’s “addons” folder, which you also can pull from the Git repository, see the Io homepage.
Update: of course, this was reported when it was fresh, with nice examples, too: pinupgeek’s blog is full of Io goodness. (Thanks, trevor!)
While nosing, I met the Python module, which lets you run Python functions in [...]
Insulted!