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   by Paddy3118 17y ago

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. Not only did I by it, but I read it, and enjoyed it too! - Paddy.
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   by Paddy3118 17y ago

   To rip out a little of the reply by tetha above: "If you have duck typing, the programmer needs to do this work, by defining clear interfaces with clear documentations about the expected behavior of an object passed in here or returned over
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   by Paddy3118 17y ago

   Python, popular!!! that is just so great! I've watched it grow for over a decade and a half. Python got were it is, largely without the big initial push of large companies. Maybe people now blog about python because the community has always
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   by Paddy3118 17y ago

   I am an active contributor to www.RosettaCode.org where I browse many languages. What I have seen of the functional languages doesn't make me want to switch. Despite knowing Pythons functional tools, it wasn't Python that introduced me to t
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   by Paddy3118 17y ago

   Here are some stats from google on the relative use of obfuscation for perl, python and ruby: <pre> Weighted use of Search Term Hits Search Term Hits obfusca
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   Batch Process Runner in bash shell - Forgotten Enhancements(paddy3118.blogspot.com)

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