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Python3k: Compatibility fail

The blogosphere is rapidly heating up with dismay and sometimes outright anger at the bungling of the Python 3000 release. I walked into the #django IRC channel and I got my head bitten off for asking which version of python I should use for django. (After the channel cooled down some, I was able to [...]

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2008 12 06 programming Comments Off

non-null in static languages.

Very technical programming post about having a ‘no value’ concept in statically typed languages. Specifically: the difficulty of representing this in a static typing system. Quick intro: Right now most static languages either have a concept called ‘null’, which means no value, and every object reference can point to null, such as Java or C#, [...]

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2008 10 23 programming Comments (16)