Ted Leung on the air

Ted Leung on the air
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...

Thu, 20 Mar 2003

Bob McWhirter and some other folks have started up codehaus as a place to do open source stuff. I'm curious to see how this pans out -- what kinds of projects they do / attract, and what kind of uptake they get. I think that there is still plenty of room for experimentation and differentiation in open source.

[13:39] | [computers/open_source] | # | TB | F | G | 0 Comments |

Multimethods in Python.

Multimethods are one of those language features that really simplify code if you need them. The GoF visitor pattern disappears in languages with multimethods. It seems that David Mertz had written a multimethod package for Python. It's described in an article on IBM developerWorks.

I think that Greenspun's Tenth Law of programming

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

needs to be extended to Python as well. At least it's possible to do this somewhat nicely in Python.

[13:20] | [computers/programming/python] | # | TB | F | G | 0 Comments |

Multitasking makes you stupid, studies say

According to this article, multitasking is less efficient than single tasking, and reduces the energy that the brain has available for completing each task. This isn't really a surprising result (especially if you understand how multitasking works in an operating system), but it's nice to have my experience backed up with actual studies.

[12:54] | [misc] | # | TB | F | G | 1 Comments |

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