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xsltuser2010 | 15 years ago | on: Ask PG: Lisp vs Python (2010)

When I last tried Lisp (SBCL) i was surprised how hard it is to find standard, common sense 'batteries' as you would in python, and how hard it is to get things going if you're not experienced. I think the point where I jumped out of the boat was trying out 'Hunchentoot' or something like that (webserver).

I haven't seen that with Python, Ruby, C++, Java, even Haskell feels 'modern' in that way. Why must it be so hard to get simple stuff going ?

(Note: I like function programming concepts, but I would expect a programming language to be easier to bind into a context of reality.)

xsltuser2010 | 15 years ago | on: Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews

Could you implement sorting by points or by comments with jquery?

xsltuser2010 | 15 years ago | on: Jason Fried's setup

That site needs a filter to only read the setups that don't include a MBP.

xsltuser2010 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Sorting massive text files?

I recently did something similar and was surprised to see the python sort command be way faster than unix sort.

The only thing is that you have to split it up and merge after sorting (for which unix sort was ok enough).

Not sure why I got that result, but even with increased buffer size for unix sort it didnt much differ. I also didn't run the splitted sorts in parallel, which would of course have been a good idea.

xsltuser2010 | 15 years ago | on: Ruby Benchmark

The site is awfully slow at the moment. Is it written in Ruby ? That would make the benchmark even more convincing ;)

xsltuser2010 | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my app: Firetweets

Distinction by design is easy, but your site is distinctive because it is a simple and useful tool. The 'distinctive' style will grow with its use becoming more clear and widespread.

Besides that, it really doesnt look like every other site. Almost all other sites are spoiled with eye sugar.

xsltuser2010 | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a future in XSLT?

Knowing XSLT for a while --

I wouldn't use it for a web framework, it just seems to be the wrong place. I use xslt for simple document transformation. Say you often have to deal with ridiculously complicated xml files and want to adapt them quickly and in batch to something, then using xslt is a nice way to go.

You should know functional programming to get anything more done than just throwing out some nodes, though. And the hard part about xslt ist actually xpath, which I still have problems with even after years to get the syntax right..

(I'm not a daily user, but it's my usual tool for that matter)