Entries published on October 11, 2006

2 entries published on this date. See also: all entries published in October 2006, full archive.

Heads up

If you’re a regular reader of my blog it will be purely remedial reading, but an article I wrote about Django is up at Sitepoint as of this morning.

Go forth and spread the good word.

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The functional language that’s right under your nose

Recently I’ve been getting an itch to learn a functional programming language. I’ve made a couple attempts on Lisp over the years, with mixed results; I can write fairly basic Common Lisp, and hack on Emacs a bit, but I’ve never advanced much beyond that. I’d been looking at some of the trendy, popular functional languages (well, popular among certain circles) like Haskell, OCaml and Erlang, when I remembered that I already knew a functional language. In fact, part of the reason why I was hired at my current job was to write in it. And, as I browsed through …

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