"Suppose I want to design a new programming language. What's the best piece of advice you can give me? Adin Falkoff: I guess the best thing I can say is do something that you enjoy, something that pleases you to work with, something that helps you accomplish something that you would like to do. We we"
"In software, the term smoke testing describes the process of validating code changes before the changes are checked into the product’s source tree. After code reviews, smoke testing is the most cost effective method for identifying and fixing defects in software. Smoke tests are designed to confirm "
"Anyone who has ever debugged programs in both compiled and interpreted languages (e.g., C versus Java) knows they are miles apart."
"We had a recent discussion on one of the Python lists where people were arguing forcefully that using dollar instead of self-dot was much more elegant. I think their definition of elegance was number of keystrokes."