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I think I really dislike Python

Ruby: > irb irb(main):001:0> a = [1,2,3] => [1, 2, 3] irb(main):002:0> a[10] = 20 => 20 irb(main):003:0> a => [1, 2, 3, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, nil, 20] Perl: > perl @a = (1,2,3); $a[10] = 20; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(@a); $VAR1 = 1; $VAR2 = 2; $VAR3 = 3; $VAR4 = [...]


A bright idea in the middle of the day

I was reading a blog yesterday about “The sad state of open source monitoring tools” and was thinking about it for some time. Coincidently today I had a chance to look at my CruiseControl configuration files, which I wrote quite a long time ago. I really love the DSL that CruiseControl is using for it’s [...]