Comments for Jason in a Nutshell

Comment on Java vs C# vs Python vs Ruby: an “objective” analysis by Michał

Michał — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:51:28 +0000

One issue: You wrote that C# package system is “Windows DLLs – can be painful”.
In fact these .NET dlls are assemblies, which are different from win32. In fact, the only similarity is the extension. And YES – assemblies are here to make you forget about dll hell!

Comment on Java vs C# vs Python vs Ruby: an “objective” analysis by GStu

GStu — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:12:06 +0000

Wouldn’t you consider Maven to be a “CPAN-like module archive” for Java?

Comment on Software update hell by Jonathan Hayward

Jonathan Hayward — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:08:35 +0000

Sorry, I can’t comment on your rant at length; my computer just installed some updates and is begging me to let it reboot itself.

Comment on IronPython in Action reviewed by Several New Reviews — IronPython in Action News

Several New Reviews — IronPython in Action News — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:07:07 +0000

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Comment on Windows for Python programmers: IIS by Michael Foord

Michael Foord — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:49:17 +0000

An don’t forget IronPython… A good choice for .NET shops.

Comment on Windows for Python programmers: IIS by Jason Baker

Jason Baker — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:15:23 +0000

Didn’t know that. Thanks for bringing it up!

Comment on Windows for Python programmers: IIS by Graham Dumpleton

Graham Dumpleton — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:23:59 +0000

Acknowledge that Apache/mod_wsgi on Windows has no daemon mode and that that isn’t about to change, so application pools in IIS do sound quite interesting.

For those who don’t have a choice and have to use Apache, worthwhile pointing out:

http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/02/source-code-reloading-with-modwsgi-on.html
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ReloadingSourceCode#Restarting_Windows_Apache

One of the features of daemon mode of mod_wsgi is the ability to easily have the application be reloaded without having to restart Apache as a whole. One can’t avoid that on Windows, but with the recipe described in those links, one can use some slight of hand to at least make it automatic during the development phase.

Comment on Java vs C# vs Python vs Ruby: an “objective” analysis by Arash

Arash — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:59:06 +0000

You got some of your C# info wrong.

C# does in fact have map, reduce, and filter.

C# also has closures.

C# will have optional parameters in version 4.0

Comment on Can we please stop comparing Wolfram Alpha to Google? by ggw_bach

ggw_bach — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:41:22 +0000

the inventor (the same person who created mathematica) is a bit of an attention whore.

Comment on Java vs C# vs Python vs Ruby: an “objective” analysis by Jason Baker

Jason Baker — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:48:20 +0000

@Developer: Not necessarily. I put it on there because the language has it. As for whether or not that’s a good thing would be the subject of another blog post.