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Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby 255

Posted by timothy on Monday November 10, 2008 @02:22AM from the like-a-sibilant-jewel dept.

synodinos writes "Ola Bini, a core JRuby developer and author of the book Practical JRuby on Rails Projects, has been developing a new language for the JVM called Ioke. This strongly typed, extremely dynamic, prototype-based, object-oriented language aims to give developers the same kind of power they get with Lisp and Ruby, combined with a nice, small, regular syntax."

Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Month 184

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday October 03, 2008 @06:49PM from the my-tab-key-still-hates-you dept.

darthcamaro writes "Some programming languages just move on to major version numbers, leaving older legacy versions (and users) behind, but that's not the plan for Python. Python 2.6 has the key goal of trying to ensure compatibility between Python 2.x and Python 3.0, which is due out in a month's time. From the article: 'Once you have your code running on 2.6, you can start getting ready for 3.0 in a number of ways,' Guido Van Rossum said. 'In particular, you can turn on "Py3k warnings," which will warn you about obsolete usage patterns for which alternatives already exist in 2.6. You can then change your code to use the modern alternative, and this will make you more ready for 3.0.'"

Comment Re:Solve the problem, for pete's sake (Score 1, Interesting) 385

by BlueNeutrino on Friday September 19, 2008 @02:45PM (#25075147) Attached to: Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal

Storing CO2 into a depleted gas field is likely to last a lot more than a few decades. Hint: for how long did the natural gas stay in there? There are CO2 sinks which, given no emissions, can reduce CO2 concentration back to pre-industrial levels in a few centuries. Then it won't matter as much (if at all) when increased quantities of CO2 are released from their storage.

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