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null | budu3 | null | I'm not saying C++ is the greatest language on earth and the article could have some elements of truth to it, with respect to the C++ language. My gripe is the fact taht the writer is turnishing the well earned reputation of an arguable talented man. If the writer's got a gripe with C++ (s)he should just come right out... | null | 0 | 1143251609 | False | 0 | c3i9g | t3_3dou | null | null | t1_c3ebg | null | 1473822401 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | budu3 | null | I've never heard of BozoSort but it looks like it's the slowest | null | 0 | 1143253171 | False | 0 | c3i9q | t3_3b1y | null | null | t1_c3edz | null | 1473822401 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dfranke | null | That's a rather lengthy piece just to express what Knuth managed to say in one sentence: "Premature optimization is the root of (almost) all evil". | null | 1 | 1143259158 | False | 0 | c3ic0 | t3_3i1s | null | null | t3_3i1s | null | 1473822402 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | That's because he illustrates the fact very persuasively with lots of interesting real-world stories and many insights that we all should know but often forget.
The proof of a theorem is often more enlightening than the theorem itself. | null | 0 | 1143259465 | False | 0 | c3ic3 | t3_3i1s | null | null | t1_c3ic0 | null | 1473822402 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dhogarty | null | True, but I found the examples useful and interesting | null | 0 | 1143259557 | False | 0 | c3ic7 | t3_3i1s | null | null | t1_c3ic0 | null | 1473822402 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | krosaen | null | I like the way he describes some of the techniques, but I think the description of dynamic programming is a little confusing. Yes, you cache solutions to sub-problems, but just because you use a cache doesn't make it dynamic programming. For example, if you used a cache during a divide an conquer algorithm, it would ... | null | 0 | 1143267170 | False | 0 | c3ids | t3_3i69 | null | null | t3_3i69 | null | 1473822403 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | arthurdenture | null | You're thinking of something else. This is dynamic programming in the algorithms sense: look it up on Wikipedia for a more thorough description. | null | 0 | 1143269998 | False | 0 | c3iee | t3_3i69 | null | null | t1_c3idy | null | 1473822403 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | a1k0n | null | I recommend "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Steven Skiena as a good introduction to the technique, as well as many many others. | null | 0 | 1143276046 | False | 0 | c3igi | t3_3i69 | null | null | t1_c3ids | null | 1473822405 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | akkartik | null | _Do I want my favorite editor to prompt me every time I hit the Save key for context? No. I want another verb, let's call it Wow, and let's have it mean, "I've done something significant to my project and I want to capture the context of that change"._
What I do is to switch the order between the two. Rather than wr... | null | 0 | 1143276693 | False | 0 | c3igu | t3_3hr2 | null | null | t3_3hr2 | null | 1473822405 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zach | null | Yay! I've been really hoping for a site that let you create a list of personal favorite quotes. I'm already a big fan. Good luck with this site. Now let's get some decent quotes on there.
And y'all have read [Paul Graham's quote page](http://paulgraham.com/quo.html), right? | null | 0 | 1143277264 | False | 0 | c3igy | t3_3gub | null | null | t3_3gub | null | 1473822405 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zach | null | Cool. I put a link the the XGP main site on reddit but it got no love. C'mon people, this is neat. | null | 0 | 1143277421 | False | 0 | c3ih1 | t3_3hiv | null | null | t3_3hiv | null | 1473822405 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | katypine | null | Exactly. And, unlike with that sentence by Knuth, I was unable to get through the whole page with all of his self-important self-reference and ego-stroking. | null | 0 | 1143278230 | False | 0 | c3ihd | t3_3i1s | null | null | t1_c3ic0 | null | 1473822405 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | komu | null | Previously seen [here](http://reddit.com/info?id=17dg). | null | 0 | 1143280885 | False | 0 | c3ihx | t3_3icm | null | null | t3_3icm | null | 1473822405 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | davidw | null | I have the same question as one of the comments... how can you write tests first if you're just exploring an idea, seeing how to get it to work, as well as, most likely, the system around it. | null | 0 | 1143286798 | False | 0 | c3iji | t3_3hw1 | null | null | t3_3hw1 | null | 1473822406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | firdaus | null | Sounds like the "Don't live with broken windows" advice from The Pragmatic Programmer.
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ppbook/extracts/no_broken_windows.html | null | 0 | 1143292001 | False | 0 | c3ilg | t3_3hw1 | null | null | t3_3hw1 | null | 1473822407 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | tjdziuba | null | just like to the KB, not your blog post. | null | 0 | 1143300554 | False | 0 | c3ip2 | t3_3ho1 | null | null | t3_3ho1 | null | 1473822408 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Ah, the irony of not doing object-oriented programming in the one programming language where you have to define a class just to print "Hello, world". | null | 0 | 1143302574 | False | 0 | c3iq3 | t3_3i1s | null | null | t1_c3in9 | null | 1473822410 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Was Mr. Chesterton young or old when he told this? | null | 0 | 1143305116 | False | 0 | c3iqz | t3_3gpp | null | null | t1_c3gs1 | null | 1473822410 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | nirs | null | This site is a bad joke. They list http://docs.python.org/ref/ref.html as a book named Python Reference Manual. When you download the "book", it is actually a html page with links to each page of the reference section in http://docs.python.org/ref.
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null | yonda | null | Consider it a preview of the book.
Go "up" to find the download section. | null | 0 | 1143325937 | False | 0 | c3iz4 | t3_3ili | null | null | t1_c3ixa | null | 1473822414 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Scoundrel | null | Yeah. There are download links for those books, that can not be downloaded directly from library because of copyrights. | null | 0 | 1143330331 | False | 0 | c3j18 | t3_3ili | null | null | t1_c3iz4 | null | 1473822415 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eamon | null | Baloney. These aren't complete books, just links to online preview pages, which broke. Obviously, this was linked by people who didn't actually check out the site. What a shame. | null | 0 | 1143333567 | False | 0 | c3j2g | t3_3ili | null | null | t3_3ili | null | 1473822415 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Scoundrel | null | I have checked this site and all books, which are interesting for me was correct... | null | 0 | 1143333939 | False | 0 | c3j2o | t3_3ili | null | null | t1_c3j2g | null | 1473822415 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zak | null | Not especially useful. The first google hit for "foo book" where foo is Lisp, Ruby, Python or OCaml is a high-quality downloadable book about the language. I suspect the same will be true for most other languages.
If that were the only problem, I'd leave it alone, but it's also linkjacked, so I'm demoting it. | null | 0 | 1143334873 | False | 0 | c3j2w | t3_3ili | null | null | t3_3ili | null | 1473822415 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kalmar | null | Why not link to the story directly, rather than your own blog post telling us that you "dugg" it?
I'm all right with self-publicisation, so long as it's some content you actually generated. This sort of entirely shameless traffic-driving (link-jacking is the proper term?), which makes up approx. 50% of your posts a... | null | 0 | 1143339460 | False | 0 | c3j3x | t3_3ili | null | null | t3_3ili | null | 1473822417 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Kynlyn | null | He certainly comes off impressed with himself, his knowledge of mathemmatics and the fact he published an obscure book.
Lot of fluff to say don't optimize early. | null | 0 | 1143353404 | False | 0 | c3j83 | t3_3i1s | null | null | t3_3i1s | null | 1473822418 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Grue | null | [Seven Day Roguelikes](http://roguebasin.t-o-m-e.net/index.php/7DRL) are also cool. I should know, because I [made one myself](http://common-lisp.net/project/lifp/rouge.htm). | null | 0 | 1143373542 | False | 0 | c3jca | t3_3hiv | null | null | t3_3hiv | null | 1473822420 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tmoertel | null | It looks like the Confluence link in the article is no longer valid. Try this one instead:
http://www.confluent.org/wiki/doku.php?id=confluence | null | 0 | 1143390637 | False | 0 | c3jj9 | t3_3jbg | null | null | t3_3jbg | null | 1473822424 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | stesch | null | By the way: **This** is CL -> http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-cl-for-as400-128.html | null | 0 | 1143392195 | False | 0 | c3jk6 | t3_3jjf | null | null | t3_3jjf | null | 1473822424 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | leoc | null | Isn't the article's use of 'declarative' a bit off? I understood that functional programming is (in general) still basically [imperative, not declarative](http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html#%_sec_1.1.7). | null | 0 | 1143393313 | False | 0 | c3jl0 | t3_3jbg | null | null | t3_3jbg | null | 1473822425 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | [deleted] | null | I'm afraid that example's a little misleading, since any iterative algorithm is going to look more or less imperative. The relevant section of SICP that discusses the difference between functional and imperative programming is [The Costs of Introducing Assignment](http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-20... | null | 0 | 1143397688 | False | 0 | c3jni | t3_3jbg | null | null | t1_c3jl0 | null | 1473822427 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nostrademons | null | Hah, I don't even get the karma for my own tutorial! ;-)
Glad somebody liked it enough to share it though. It's still very much in progress - I'm hoping to get feedback as to what's clear, what's not clear, what needs to be explained in more depth. | null | 0 | 1143404585 | False | 0 | c3jr5 | t3_3jpl | null | null | t3_3jpl | null | 1473822428 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | leoc | null | Ah, it's actually a problem of definition; the [confusion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming) between imperative vs. declarative in the sense of side-effects vs. no side-effects and in the sense of describe the solution vs. describe the problem. I was thinking of sense 2. SICP is talking about sense ... | null | 0 | 1143405421 | False | 0 | c3jrn | t3_3jbg | null | null | t1_c3jni | null | 1473822428 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | This is a pretty old article.. The creator of confluence has shifted his efforts to a new hardware design language, called [hdcaml](http://www.confluent.org/wiki/doku.php).
I tried using confluence a while ago, but without adequate examples I found it very hard to learn. The tutorial only got you past a few basic d... | null | 0 | 1143406521 | False | 0 | c3js6 | t3_3jbg | null | null | t3_3jbg | null | 1473822428 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobdole | null | Take a real look at confluence, though, it's much more declarative than most eager functional languages. The basic idea is that, within a single clock cycle, the constructs are piped together declaratively, which very close to what's happening on the metal. (HoF, etc, help abstract away patterns). | null | 0 | 1143407411 | False | 0 | c3jsw | t3_3jbg | null | null | t1_c3jl0 | null | 1473822429 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | lupin_sansei | null | > prediction of a stock market crash in 1998 would prove that there was no stock market bubble
A prediction requires a time. Of the form "on x the internet stockmarket will crash."
Anyway what would disprove Ehrlich then? 20, 30, 100 years of no population explosion causing a famine? | null | 0 | 1143419525 | False | 0 | c3jz5 | t3_3h2h | null | null | t1_c3hi6 | null | 1473822432 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mystilleef | null | A guy on my IRC channel actually wrote a somewhat broken Scheme compiler in Python in about 20 minutes. That's unreal. | null | 0 | 1143422532 | False | 0 | c3k09 | t3_3jpl | null | null | t3_3jpl | null | 1473822432 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobdole | null | And by somewhat broken, I'm going to guess you mean it doesn't support full tail recursion elimination? :p | null | 0 | 1143422651 | False | 0 | c3k0b | t3_3jpl | null | null | t1_c3k09 | null | 1473822432 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | amikael | null | Make you own instant webpage, if nothing else ;-) | null | 0 | 1143422764 | False | 0 | c3k0f | t3_3iti | null | null | t3_3iti | null | 1473822432 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | [deleted] | null | An extremely powerful type system is what separates most functional languages from Lisp.
Lazy evaluation and side-effect-free-ness via monads is what separates Haskell from most other functional languages.
This lets you write a linear time implementation of the Fibonacci series as
fibs = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+... | null | 0 | 1143426937 | False | 0 | c3k23 | t3_3jpl | null | null | t1_c3k12 | null | 1473822434 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | michaelneale | null | Someone commented that Lisp can cope with anything through macros, which sounds horrible, but for some reason macros don't feel dirty in lisp at all. I even wish they wouldn't call them macros (due to the connotations).
of course, Lisp *probably* used them before I was born. | null | 0 | 1143426938 | False | 0 | c3k24 | t3_3jqq | null | null | t3_3jqq | null | 1473822434 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | weeksie | null | Scheme is a non-pure functional language. You can add things to scheme (as well as to common lisp) that allow type annotations. Common Lisp is NOT a functional language but can be made to act like one.
However, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Haskell does things for you that Scheme or Lisp... | null | 0 | 1143430385 | False | 0 | c3k3a | t3_3jpl | null | null | t1_c3k2g | null | 1473822435 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | TronXD | null | Macros have the full power of Lisp available to them, therefore of course they are Turing-complete. | null | 1 | 1143432385 | False | 0 | c3k4k | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3k33 | null | 1473822435 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | weeksie | null | Yeah but that's being pedantic, the most common usage for Lisp currently means Common Lisp which is generally used in an imperitive style. Most people refer to the Steele/Sussman Lisp dialect as Scheme.
So yes, you're sort of correct but don't act surprised when people mistake your usage.
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null | weeksie | null | Please remove yourself from Paul Graham's lower intestine. | null | 0 | 1143436483 | False | 0 | c3k68 | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3k4k | null | 1473822436 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | weeksie | null | ugh.
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null | japple | null | I think this is a good question, and I'm quite devoted to Haskell.
There are many arguments for static typing. Here's one: The compiler is right more often than I am.
I'm not being snarky, here; the compiler is sometimes wrong - there are some things that are type safe that the compiler doesn't understand. But, f... | null | 0 | 1143437638 | False | 0 | c3k6t | t3_3jpl | null | null | t1_c3k12 | null | 1473822436 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weeksie | null | Nah mate, you sound like you're in college. You'll grow out of it. | null | 0 | 1143438768 | False | 0 | c3k79 | t3_3jpl | null | null | t1_c3k6s | null | 1473822436 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | tayssir | null | I hear [ACL2](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/) is also used for Common Lisp static typing. I just skimmed the tutorials, and it seems they say nothing about static typing so far, but talk about something deeper -- logic. Of which presumably static typing is one use. But that's all a guess. | null | 0 | 1143453865 | False | 0 | c3ke2 | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3k3k | null | 1473822440 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tayssir | null | In fact, I've been pretty impressed with logic's role after looking at Sowa's slim [Knowledge Representation](http://www.jfsowa.com/krbook/) book. Offers some historical context... as with any book, dunno if others will enjoy it, but it's worth looking through. | null | 0 | 1143454229 | False | 0 | c3ke9 | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3ke2 | null | 1473822440 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | robbie | null | For an extremely in depth discussion of test first programming as well as loads of other xp techniques, check out http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestFirstDesign | null | 0 | 1143455158 | False | 0 | c3kee | t3_3hw1 | null | null | t1_c3iji | null | 1473822440 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weeksie | null | Alright, I got voted down because I talked shit about another wanky lisp fan boy.
*I'd vote me down too, it was a negative comment and didn't add much.*
However, I'm just so sick of assholes who read a few Paul Graham essays and decide that Lisp is the way and the light, never mind if they've actually used it for... | null | 1 | 1143457463 | False | 0 | c3kfc | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3k68 | null | 1473822440 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | fnord123 | null | Linkjack. [Here](http://www.macworld.com/2005/09/features/tigertips1/index.php?lsrc=mwrss)'s the article. | null | 0 | 1143462272 | False | 0 | c3kh6 | t3_3kgo | null | null | t3_3kgo | null | 1473822442 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | reddit_again | null | I really hate the "Give an instance in your life in which you were faced with a problem and you tackled it successfully." Question. Whats the best way to answer this one?
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null | darrint | null | Suppose you wanted to make Lisp not garbage collected? Or support massive concurrency like Erlang? Or make it purely functional like Haskell? Or make the whole language have an inferred type system like Haskell?
These are useful things. While I won't say that these things can't be done with Common lisp, they don't t... | null | 0 | 1143469384 | False | 0 | c3kll | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3k24 | null | 1473822444 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mikaelhg | null | Interesting? Perhaps in the sense in which a traffic accident is interesting. | null | 0 | 1143469748 | False | 0 | c3klt | t3_3k8v | null | null | t3_3k8v | null | 1473822444 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kman | null | Wicked! Thanks! | null | 0 | 1143470382 | False | 0 | c3kmd | t3_3jjf | null | null | t1_c3jk6 | null | 1473822444 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | fnord123 | null | This is *key*. [Historically](http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.en.html), ML was first implemented as a macro language on top of a Lisp. It was reimplemented for performance reasons.
Really, the discussion shouldn't be "why use Haskell and not Lisp?"; it should be "should we implement Haskell using Lisp or C"?
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null | [deleted] | null | This article is nothing but a straw-man. I like static typing, but I often have to do some python, groovy, javascript or even html programming. I always make mistakes and the simplest typing error can be a real bitch to track down. Wastes a lot of my time. It's simply not true that compilers only catch mistakes no ... | null | 1 | 1143472291 | False | 0 | c3knk | t3_3jqq | null | null | t3_3jqq | null | 1473822444 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | I don't see anyone browbeating the users of the "s" about how wrong they are. Seeing as how it's a shortened version, I don't see what's so very very wrong about shortening it a little bit more to make it a simpler word. After all, that's why we shorten it in the first place, no? | null | 0 | 1143472694 | False | 0 | c3knv | t3_3grk | null | null | t1_c3hpz | null | 1473822444 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | masterfuol | null | When did ["pragmatist"](http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=pragmatist) stop being a word? Or am I missing some clever joke? | null | 0 | 1143473028 | False | 0 | c3ko2 | t3_3knq | null | null | t3_3knq | null | 1473822444 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | fergalbreen | null | Ex-Excite VP & Brigham Young professor discusses COMET, the next stage of AJAX, following Alex Russell's introduction of the term to describe AJAX | null | 0 | 1143473768 | False | 0 | c3koz | t3_3koy | null | null | t3_3koy | null | 1473822446 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Techers | null | Very well written explanation of COMET and where it could go | null | 0 | 1143473903 | False | 0 | c3kp6 | t3_3koy | null | null | t3_3koy | null | 1473822446 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | masterfuol | null | [non link-jacked version here](http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/03/alex_russell_on.shtml). | null | 0 | 1143474600 | False | 0 | c3kpw | t3_3koy | null | null | t3_3koy | null | 1473822446 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | In Q2 it seems he misunderstood the questions he was getting, while the few reasons given for Q5 are [not enough](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover#Why_are_they_round.3F) (see also a neat [fictional interview with Richard Feynman](http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/#Feynman) on this topic).
This makes... | null | 0 | 1143476940 | False | 0 | c3krp | t3_3k8v | null | null | t3_3k8v | null | 1473822447 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | darrint | null | Snarky, contrary: you can be either, but not both. | null | 0 | 1143478217 | False | 0 | c3ksk | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3kfc | null | 1473822447 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | djdexter | null | I found this site very cool. A daily/weekly/monthly update on how many search results their are for python (and other) webapp frameworks. Anyone know of similar websites, that track other subjects? | null | 0 | 1143478307 | False | 0 | c3ksp | t3_3ksh | null | null | t3_3ksh | null | 1473822447 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | TronXD | null | I'm a wanky Lisp fan-boy for THAT? Are you an idiot?
"never mind if they've actually used it for anything like a real project. OR EVEN USED IT."
I've written a server and a client for a graphical online multiplayer game in it. | null | 1 | 1143481716 | False | 0 | c3kvd | t3_3jqq | null | null | t1_c3kfc | null | 1473822449 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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