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Tom Radcliffe

Threads Done Right… with Tcl

I don’t like threads. They are brittle and dangerous… Even when the languages being used have good thread support (Java…

Python vs C or C ++ – which programming language is better for embedded programming? The C/C++ programming languages dominate…

Getting a new developer up to speed is one of those 80/20 tasks: there is an easy 80% that goes…

“Interpreted languages are slow” is a common myth. Interpreted languages provide an increase in development speed but trade it off…

Recently, Jason McIntosh, co-author of “Perl & XML,” and I did a webinar about all things Perl. We wanted to…

If you’re one of the millions of ActivePerl downloaders who want the support we provide in our Perl distribution, ActivePerl…

The latest release of Komodo IDE has a lot of exciting features: notably remote Chrome debugging, greatly improved support for…

The Oscars celebrate Best Supporting Actor and Actress each year. But programming languages that play a supporting role generally get…

“I don’t want a pickle, I just want to ride on my motor-cicle” –Arlo Guthrie This is a bit more fanciful…

There have been a few articles lately posing the age old question: “Is R or Python a better language to…

Yes, the title of this blog is a three-way pun, although neither Lisp nor conferences will be mentioned. There was…

Python has a lot to offer Java developers, and the languages are interesting both in their similarities and their differences….