As I understand his claims, “less code that ran faster” was after switching from existing web frameworks to web.py, a from-scratch web framework he wrote himself to ‘do the right thing, simply’ (as all the best…
> And yet, most programmers have an irrational fear of built-in metaprogramming because it "makes hard to understand code". But seemingly nobody is afraid of bad metaprogramming, like code generation. Which I would…
Something was bugging me about this article the first time I read it, so I made a mind map. Turns out, not once does the author actually give a reason why Python was better than Lisp for Reddit. The only references to…
Not a Firefox user, but this feels like a culture gap. I use multiple applications where configurability through user-code is part of the SLA, and dropping support would be as utterly unacceptable as, say, dropping the…
I've actually seen this usage pattern in the practical usage of logic programming libraries. Common Lisp's Screamer [1], for instance, or Clojure's less-mature core.logic [2]. Though to be fair, both of these libraries…
As I understand his claims, “less code that ran faster” was after switching from existing web frameworks to web.py, a from-scratch web framework he wrote himself to ‘do the right thing, simply’ (as all the best…
> And yet, most programmers have an irrational fear of built-in metaprogramming because it "makes hard to understand code". But seemingly nobody is afraid of bad metaprogramming, like code generation. Which I would…
Something was bugging me about this article the first time I read it, so I made a mind map. Turns out, not once does the author actually give a reason why Python was better than Lisp for Reddit. The only references to…
Not a Firefox user, but this feels like a culture gap. I use multiple applications where configurability through user-code is part of the SLA, and dropping support would be as utterly unacceptable as, say, dropping the…
I've actually seen this usage pattern in the practical usage of logic programming libraries. Common Lisp's Screamer [1], for instance, or Clojure's less-mature core.logic [2]. Though to be fair, both of these libraries…