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Are all programming languages equally powerfull?

By Brian Hurt | Published: January 10, 2008

So this post from Raganwald is going to cause a couple of responses (none of which involving static typing). The one involving the “intuitive” features of modern vr.s postmodern languages (ala Larry Wall) will have to wait, because one line in the post completely gobstopped me: All programming languages are equally powerful. Wait- are you [...]

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“A Defense of Prototypes”

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 7, 2008

A lot of people who read this blog now weren’t reading it back in 2005, so I thought I’d point out one of my favorite old posts. A Defense of Prototypes, or, Why Does Tom Christiansen Hate Perl?, written in October of 2005. Just in case you thought my static typing obsession was a new [...]

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Best Coder Food I’ve Found

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 6, 2008

Kashi’s Five-Cheese-and-Tomato Pizza. The Mediterranean pizza is pretty good, too. It’s the best freezer-to-oven-to-stomach pizza I’ve found. The fact that it happens to be vaguely in the vicinity of healthy is just gravy.

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Why Security Matters (And It’s Not Why You Think): A Brief Story.

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 5, 2008

So, I’m boppin’ along on my Ruby on Rails website, just screwin’ around with a few migrations, trying to decide how I want things to work. Stuff looks good, so I go to check in. But, in the meantime, my partner on the site as done an update, so I pull down the newest stuff. [...]

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Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 18, 2007

Sierra Bravo‘s F1 Overnight Website Challenge is a cute little idea: 24 hours of non-stop coding for the good of nonprofits. Should be fun. Groovy.MN has failed to pull a team together, so it was a pretty easy decision to sign on with Ruby.MN-ists. Although, the “Pixel-Stained Technopeasants” or “The Mighty Polymorphin Power Rangers” would [...]

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