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TextMate is an excellent editor, but it is beginning to show its age. It has a few squeaky wheels that have yet to be oiled, and it looks as though the author may be getting bogged down in the minutiae of his next release. With the next version apparently due sometime after the colonization of Mars, it seemed an auspicious time to try out another editor.

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Pike 7.8 did not compile out of the box on my Mac, so I figured I would write up what it took to get it working.

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Profiling is one of the most important steps in writing software. Once a package is written, profiling greatly helps to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies by showing how an application spends its time. How to profile a lisp application is a common question among those new to lisp. Luckily, profiling lisp is simple with emacs and [...]

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We lispers generally look down our noses at regular expressions. Regular expressions are ugly. They are not expressive. However, they are a reality of programming. When used with care, they can express complex text patterns concisely. Submit article

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Psyco is a module that optimizes Python applications on the fly. Numerous resources online describe how to use psyco in a Django-powered application to speed it up. Submit article

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