Tag Archives: ruby

Tim Bray, “we have so little consensus on these issues”

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Karl

Tim Bray posted a thought provoker in “Type-System Criteria”. Working in Android has caused him to rethink some positions. Go read.

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Two comparisons of different programming languages worth reading

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Karl

Normally these kinds of pieces are worthless, but these two recently stood out to me: Dennis M. Ritchie: Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL* March 19, 2002 Michael Tsai: Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby – distinguished … Continue reading →

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More on Graphviz

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Karl

Linux.com: An Introduction to GraphViz Emacs mode for Graphviz OmniNerd: Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz

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Emacs links for today

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Karl

Emacs Screencast (Ruby developer shows why he likes Emacs) Xah’s Emacs Lisp Tutorial – I’m following this myself. Some great bits in there for the Lisp/Emacs newbie. Publiushing Org-mode files to HTML – nice setup to publish a directory of … Continue reading →

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The Monty Hall Problem in Ruby and Python

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Karl

Antonio Cangiano, Software Engineer & Technical Evangelist at IBM: Monte Carlo simulation of the Monty Hall Problem in Ruby and Python. YouTube: “21″ explains the Monty Hall problem

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