Parker Lewis - Slashdot User

Submission + - PHP 5.3 released (php.net)

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Parker Lewis

on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @09:18AM

Parker Lewis writes: "PHP 5.3 is finally released, with some long waited features like namespaces (with the unpopular backslash as namespace separator), late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more. As you can imagine, some old pieces will be broken."

Submission + - Spell Corrector in Java (raelcunha.com)

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Parker Lewis

on Monday August 20, 2007 @06:12AM

Parker Lewis writes: "Peter Norvig recently published an article explaning how spelling corrector works (like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo uses in their search engines). Peter Norvig produced a nicely 21 python lines program. My version is Java, and has 45 lines: not so beautiful/elegant as the Norvig code, not so huge as the C implementation."

Submission + - Is Groovy really groovy?

Submitted by Parker Lewis on Thursday August 31, 2006 @12:00PM

Parker Lewis writes: In the current days it's possible find a lot of marketing about the new blessed Java language: Groovy. I was searching more details about it, and I find this article. Steve, the author (and currently a Google employee), developed a little game (Sokoban), using all utilizable languages running over the Java Virtual Machine. The impressions about Groovy was not very good. The complete set of articles can be read here.

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