Why scripting languages of today are doomed
Rant.
What do Python, Perl and Ruby all have in common? They all utterly suck at multithreading.
None of these scripting languages can take advantage of modern operating systems and the threading support they have. This might not have been important when these scripting languages were invented many years ago when a 386 was state of the […]
Python 3000
I just attended a talk about Python 3000 (3.0) by Guido van Rossum. At the CWI (Center for Mathematics and Information Technology) in Amsterdam. Always nice if something happens in your own town!
For me as a Python n00b it was still pretty interesting. Guido explained what the path to Python 3.0 will look like and […]
The (poor) state of e-books: Manning.com
It’s been a while since i really wrote an article on my blog so I thought it would be a good idea to write a more serious piece: my experience with buying e-books and the quality of those files.
The publishers that I will cover are: Manning, APress, O’Reilly and The Pragmatic Programmers. The tone of this article is pretty negative already but that is simply to indicate that my overall experience with e-books is not very positive.
Today I’m covering Manning. Unfortunately not one of the best experience.