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  • Extending Python with Pyrex

    In a previous entry, I showed how to extend Python without directly using the Python C using SWIG. SWIG parses an interface file written by the programmer and then outputs a wrapper module. A more elegant, more pythonic solution might be a parser which allows a C module to be written directly in Python. [...]

    Oct 23rd, 2007 | Filed under Programming
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  • Java from a functional perspective

    Not long ago a project required me to learn a little Java. As a long-time elitist functional programmer, I was not extremely excited. Due to the low quality of Java software I have used, I assumed, like many, that Java produced slow, bloated, and buggy software. Some languages just feel clunky.

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    Oct 15th, 2007 | Filed under Soap box
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