Archive: August 04, 2005

Thursday, August 4, 2005

1. Aspect-oriented programming in Python:

   • Light-weight Approach to AOP for Python
   • Logilab.org - Aspects
   • Pythius supposedly also contains an AOP component.
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2. Composition filters, via. To read about.

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3. Trampolining Architectures | Lambda the Ultimate. Uhh. They're related to monads, which I don't know much about either

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4. Lucene in Python: I wonder how mature Lupy and PyLucene are. Lupy is a Python port of Lucene, while PyLucene is a Python interface to Lucene through SWIG. According to the FAQ and the version number, Lupy is not very mature. Dunno about PyLucene.

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5. Python.org: Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter.

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6. I enjoyed reading Sam Ruby's slides for his OSCON presentation giving an update on the Pie-thon contest (via Sam), though I'm sure I would have enjoyed hearing the presentation in person much more. In short, Guido is a genius

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7. The Observation Deck: DTrace and PHP (to read), via Tim Bray.

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8. Termite: a Lisp for Distributed Computing, via Adam:

   > In short: take Scheme, remove mutations, add isolated processes with mailboxes, add message sending and receiving operations and an addressing mechanism.
   
   The bottom line is Termite is Erlang's distributed concurrency model ported to a dialect of Scheme that has been pared back to something like the sequential aspects of the Erlang language (chapters from Erlang book PDF).
   
   Included in Termite are continuations that can support distributed process migration and macros. Continuations, macros, and closures allow Termite to be more amenable to discovering new abstractions than Erlang.

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9. Gambit Scheme System, via Adam.

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10. Concurrency Oriented Programming in Erlang (to read), via Adam.

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11. ActiveGrid. To play with.

    License: "The ActiveGrid products are licensed under Apache 2.0 Open Source and are free for usage for development and production deployments."

    Here are their docs, their whitepapers and specs, and their sourcecode.

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12. Ooh, the Blue Angels are going to be in Tennessee a couple times later this year.

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13. objc_msgSend (to read), via Simon.

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