June 5, 2002

Larry Wall Proposes Big Changes to Regex Syntax

“Regex culture has gone wrong in a variety of ways, but it’s not my intent to assign blame–there’s plenty of blame to go around, and plenty of things that have gone wrong that are nobody’s fault in particular. …

“Given all this, I need to warn you that this Apocalypse is going to be somewhat radical. We’ll be proposing changes to certain ‘sacred’ features of regex culture, and this is guaranteed to result in future shock for some of our more conservative citizens. Do not be alarmed.”

June 5, 2002 .NET

Updated .NET Instant Messager Client Library

Harry Pierson has made a number of updates to this core code to support his full-blown .NET IM client application. Check it out!

June 4, 2002 Tools

Updated XsdClassesGen

Eric Eric Friedman has submitted code to support namespaces and uninstall. The former fills the biggest hole in XsdClassesGen (thanks Eric), but why would anyone need the latter?!? : )

June 4, 2002

Golden Hostess Snack Goes Whole-Hog

“Christopher Sell’s restaurateur credentials are solid: He was trained as a French chef, managed a chain of London sushi restaurants and has been in the food industry for over 20 years.”

(It’s not me… : )

June 1, 2002

Syntax Across Languages

Looking for syntax for a language you don’t use very often? This site lists the various syntax across languages. He also sorts the data by construct and syntax for easy access, although he’s missing several pieces from several languages. If you know some, help him out!

June 1, 2002

Email Alerts on New MS Support or KB Articles

“It’s FREE!!!! It’s EASY!!! Every day I scan Microsoft’s knowledge base to find new support articles. Now you can receive Free Email Alerts every time Microsoft Publishes NEW Support or KB Articles!”

May 30, 2002 .NET

F#

F# is the CLR language “[c]ombining the speed, safety and productivity of ML and Caml with the libraries, tools and cross-language working of .NET”

Don used to say that F was invented for things that there was no F-ing way to do in other languages…

May 29, 2002 .NET

Microsoft .NET Pet Shop vs. Sun Java Pet Store

″…the .NET Pet Shop performs over 10 times faster than Oracle’s Java Pet Store based on Oracle’s latest (questionable) published data.”


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