Tag: Python
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Write-only? A simple program translated from C to Forth
The old joke is that Forth is a “write-only language”. in other words, you can write this stuff but you cannot understand it (and hence maintain it). Of course, any endorsement of this view is regarded as a heresy amongst many in the Forth community, but I have to admit that sometimes the Forth-bashers have…
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Does “coding” have a future?
Today is, for me, the last working day of the year and I was able to finish with a small triumph – successfully solving several programming conundrums that have eaten into my time over a number of weeks. The technology involved – Python – is not one I have had much experience with, and only…
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What computer output is supposed to look like
This month is the 41st anniversary of me coming face-to-face with a “micro-computer” for the first time – in WH Smith’s in Brent Cross. I am not truly sure how I knew what I was looking at (beyond I suppose the shop’s own signage) – because at that time not even “The Mighty Micro” –…
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More and more spam reviews on Amazon
Earlier this month I highlighted how a book that claims to be about using Python to build convolutional neural networks and yet, say readers, contains not a single line of Python, was garnering rave reviews on Amazon. The trend hasn’t stopped and it is pretty clear to me that these are, in fact, spam. Plainly…
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The PyCon row
I have never written any Python. Maybe that might change in the future, but not soon I think. So PyCon, a big conference for Python developers, normally would not matter to me, especially as it is on another continent. But this year’s PyCon saw a huge row about allegedly offensive and sexist behaviour. In my…
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How many languages can you recognise?
This site has an extensive online quiz on computer languages. I managed just 11/75 (actually it was 12/75 but I pressed the wrong key when typing ‘Java’): a miserable 14.67%. I missed some of the languages I use regularly yet got some I have never used, or maybe not used for close to 30 years…
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