Python, Parrot, and Chicks
[ rakaur on Tue Nov 30 at 03:26 PM // category: life, programming, relationships, technology ]
Not that any of the new features really interest me at all. The new “sets” seem to me to be what arrays are in Ruby (lists with lexical magic for operators; I thought you could do this with lists anyway?). Function decorators anger me. They seem a big cheesy hack to avoid adding some keywords. What’s so bad about static def?
In other news, Parrot looks promising. It’s a register-based (most are stack-based) VM that was originally designed to implement Perl6 but aims to be language-independent as to offer a suitable VM for other bytecode languages like Python (Ruby, as of now, uses ASTs for parsing, but I believe they plan to implement a Parrot compiler anyhow) to run faster in (Perl is decent, Ruby is slow, Python is slower than frozen piss running uphill in the snow). They say it already goes faster than Perl5 (a good accomplishment in itself). Also, it allows for the bytecode generator to be implemented in the language that it’s compiling (Python bytecode compiler written in Python, etc). I’m not sure how they do that yet (bootstrapping problem anyone?), but it looks to be very neat.
Parenthetically.
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned el chicko. I tried to get a friend to talk to her for me, which is pretty bad. But you know, considering every time I see her my brain turns to jello and I’m lucky to not make a complete cock out of myself, I don’t think it’s such a bad idea. I really like her, and it’d be a shame if I never even at least let her know, even indirectly.
That was the worst run-on in the history of the English language.
I digress.
I have actual work to do. Work that pays. So, naturally, I’ll be going to do my homework now instead of my real work (because making a profit would perhaps give me a little something to be happy about and I insist on completely destroying my self-esteem especially by attaching myself to girls I don’t/won’t know etc this isn’t psychology).
On a side note, I keep seeing my checkbox for “photography” under my “category” thingy, and I keep realizing how much I miss my camera. Oh shit, that reminds me, I have a yearbook meeting in about four and a half hours ago.
Whoops.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.30 @ 03:26 PM
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