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Re:Damien Conway interview: Perl 6, Java, his PhD on Saturday August 23, 2008 @06:28AM (#284560)
Am I the only one who considers Perl6 dead and irrelevant? I haven't seen anything approaching a usable product out of the efforts, and how long has the project been underway now? By the time it's finished, Perl5 is irrelevant as all the kids will be using Python, Java, Ruby, maybe D. Legacy applications won't switch from Perl5.
Re:Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs? on Friday July 18, 2008 @04:38PM (#250179)
I tried Komodo and PyDev, now I'm back to my favorite editor SciTe. Sufficient for me as I don't work on large Python projects.
Re:Goosh - The Unofficial Google Shell on Monday June 02, 2008 @01:56PM (#206997)
The really cool thing is that you can search and bring up the result sites without a mouse (or any mousless browsing extensions).