heise online: Java ist Programmiersprache des Jahres 2015 im TIOBE-Index
“Viele Gewinner, aber auch einen großen Verlierer findet man eingangs des Jahres im TIOBE-Index zur Ermittlung der populärsten Programmiersprache. Über allen steht derzeit Java, das einen doch sehr überraschenden Boom zu verzeichnen hat.”
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About Python 3 and unicode/str/bytes
You might want to read this interesting article about Python 3 and unicode/str/bytes.
Why Python 3 exists
Or, the whole unicode/str/bytes thing was done for a reason
Brett Cannon
Python core developer.
http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists
Small modules vs. standard library
Read about small modules vs. standard library in the following blog post from Atlassian developer Will Binns-Smith.
https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/11/what-the-web-platform-can-learn-from-nodejs/
I found this an interesting read. Always remember to abstract from standard libraries in your application code.
Software Developers’ Growing Elitism Problem
Cahlan Sharp writes in TechCrunch about elitism in software development. Interesting read.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/27/software-developers-growing-elitism-problem/
I wonder if this is specific to software development. Doesn’t every job has its elite? I mean, there are elite designers and elite bankers. Humans want to differentiate themself. Nobody wants to be average.
Are programmers engineers?
Wired has an interesting article that discusses the question “what makes an engineer an engineer?”
Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers – http://www.wired.com/2015/11/programmers-lets-earn-the-right-to-be-called-engineers/
I think that it is not easy to answer this question, as there are many different programmers out there. A VBA programmer writing macros in Excel is very different from an embedded programmer writing plane controlling programs. It depends.
Richard Stallman gibt Emacs-Leitung ab
“Der Gründer der Free Software Foundation übergibt die Leitung des Emacs-Projekts an John Wiegley. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass Stallman sich von der Spitze zurückzieht.”
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CMUCL 2015-11 snapshot has been released
The 2015-11 snapshot of Carnegie Mellon University Common Lisp (CMUCL) has been released. Please read their wiki for more information.
SBCL 1.3.0, released October 31, 2015
Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.3.0, released October 31, 2015 – http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html#1.3.0
Editors in the cloud(s)
With more and more things moving into the cloud, you can now find a bunch of online editors for your favourite language. I told you about Plunker in a recent post. But there’s more.
- jsFiddle – another web IDE for JavaScript
- SQL Fiddle – web IDE for SQL
- C# Pad – online interactive shell for C#
There are some more but these are the ones that I have tried. They are very useful if you just want to try out small code snippets or maybe a bit more.
Code Week: Programmieren lernen (nicht nur) vom 10. bis 18. Oktober
“Europaweit widmen sich im Rahmen der Code Week vom 10. bis zum 18. Oktober eine Fülle von Veranstaltungen dem Ziel, Kindern und Jugendlichen das Programmieren nahezubringen. Kick-off ist am Samstag.” – http://heise.de/-2840057
Amazon Web Services: Lambda-Dienst unterstützt Python
“Den Cloud-Dienst, der im November 2014 als Service für mit Node.js betriebene JavaScript-Anwendungen gestartet wurde, können nun auch Python-Entwickler nutzen. Außerdem lässt sich hiermit nun der AWS-Dienst Virtual Private Cloud nutzen.” – http://heise.de/-2841109
SBCL 1.2.16, released September 30, 2015
SBCL 1.2.16, released September 30, 2015 – http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/news.html#1.2.16
Before you learn to code, ask yourself why
Very interesting read: Before you learn to code, ask yourself why – http://blog.underdog.io/post/129654418712/before-you-learn-to-code-ask-yourself-why