Tag: Comparison

"Since Adam D'Angelo, the founder, had worked for Facebook, which heavily uses PHP. I am trying to understand the technical challenges the founders of Quora faced before they decided to go with Python rather than PHP."

"This article will compare the latest incarnations of Ruby, with the latest in Python, Groovy, PHP, Lua, Perl and Java too, to have a comparison with a pre-compiled language. We will see, how scripting languages behave if applied to fractal geometry, more precisely an family Mandelbrot algorithm." by Marco Mastrodonato

If programming languages were women, who would they be?

Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Opera.

"At the moment I can see 3 viable alternatives to Flash for animation: HTML, Canvas and SVG. Only Canvas is strictly HTML5, but since everyone's getting all hot about making web apps on the iPad with "HTML5" I thought I'd lump them all under that buzzword." via The Man in Blue

"Compared to other programming languages, Python and Ruby are so similar that hearing arguments between them is like trying to figure out which identical twin is more handsome."

Ruby, Io, PHP, Python, Lua, Java, Perl, Applescript, TCL, ELisp, Javascript, OCaml, Ghostscript, and C Fractal Benchmark.

Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote on his blog: "I’ve recently made the transition from full-time Rails development to a mix of technologies including, in large part, Django. Since I was a Python guy before I ever started using Ruby, the transition has mostly been an easy one, but there are some fairly significant differences in design and philosophy between the two frameworks that are worth thinking about if you’re picking a platform for a new project."

So it’s pretty clear by now that statistics and machine learning aren’t very different fields.

Joel Spolsky wrote on his blog "What are the cultural differences between Unix and Windows programmers? There are many details and subtleties, but for the most part it comes down to one thing: Unix culture values code which is useful to other programmers, while Windows culture values code which is useful to non-programmers."

Code comparison (size and complexity) between Mathematica, MatLab and Python.