Perl and Scala: what can they learn from each other?

Ironically Scala at first drew my interest, because I discovered that about ten years ago there was no really good understanding of how to do a good multithreading concept for Perl 6. I thought exploring how they do it in Scala, where it was already known to be good at that time, would give a …

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Phone Numbers and E-Mail Addresses

Most data that we deal with are strings or numbers or booleans and combinations of these into classes and collections. Dates can be expressed as string or number, but have enough specific logic to be seen as a fourth group of data. All these have interesting aspects, some of which have been discussed in this …

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Orthodox Christmas 2019/2020

Orthodox Christmas 2019/2020 in Ukraine and probably some other countries is on 2020-01-07. God Jul! — Feliĉan Kristnaskon! — ميلاد مجيد — Natale hilare! — Hyvää Joulua! — Срећан Божић! — Prettige Kerstdagen! — クリスマスおめでとう ; メリークリスマス — З Рiздвом Христовим! — Buon Natale! — Joyeux Noël! — С Рождеством! — Frohe Weihnachten! — ¡Feliz …

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How to replace svn:keywords?

In the old days we used svn, cvs, rcs or other systems for source code management, that allowed enabling something like svn:keywords. This resulted in certain strings in the source code being replaced by strings containing some version information. More often than we might think these were useful. The question „what version are we running?“ …

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Happy New Year 2020

Un an nou fericit! — Onnellista uutta vuotta! — Feliĉan novan jaron! — Καλή Χρονια! — ¡Feliz año nuevo! — С новым годом! — FELIX SIT ANNUS NOVUS — Godt nytt år! — Щасливого нового року! — Frohes neues Jahr! — Felice anno nuovo! — Bonne année! — Gott nytt år! — Срећна нова година! …

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