Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
2005-12-08
Slava has a post about the AMD64 backend he is working on for Factor. There has been quite a bit of interesting progress with Factor recently, including some nice contributions. Someone has even written an X11 window manager in Factor.
2005-12-07
Aaron Swartz writes about the rewrite of reddit in Python. Apparently the Python framework used, web.py, was written by Aaron.
What I find most interesting is how quickly reddit was developed - and redeveloped. Only one weekend for the rewrite is pretty impressive. One reason for the fast implementation is because it's the second time they've written it and can learn from past design mistakes. They also get to reuse all the HTML design. It's a good case study though of how quickly a very popular site can be developed and maintained.
2005-12-07
From DrXyzzy, a good article on how code replacement is done in Erlang. Code replacing allows replacing code in a running system with new versions, without having to bring that system down.
2005-12-06
The reddit blog outlines why they rewrote reddit in Python, from the original Common Lisp.
If Lisp is so great, why did we stop using it? One of the biggest issues was the lack of widely used and tested libraries. Sure, there is a CL library for basically any task, but there is rarely more than one, and often the libraries are not widely used or well documented. Since we're building a site largely by standing on the shoulders of others, this made things a little tougher. There just aren't as many shoulders on which to stand.
2005-12-06
reddit, the popular web application written in Common Lisp, will now have to be known as the web application formally written in Common Lisp. It has been rewritten in Python.
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