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Google has published a paper (PDF) comparing performance of four programming languages, C++, its own language Go, Java and Scala. A team at Google created a "simple and compact" benchmark that didn't take advantage of language-specific features. An algorithm was implemented using each language's "idiomatic container classes, looping constructs, and memory/object allocation schemes."

Let’s begin with Common Lisp, Scheme, Fortran, Smalltalk, C, C++, Objective C, Ada, Java, Javascript, C#, D, Prolog, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, Clojure, Lua, Forth, Factor, Erlang, OCaml, F#, Clean, Haskell, Scala and start the elimination process.

One of the most important parts in the web is a browser. Browser is the window, through which web users interact with web applications and other users. Users are always talks with web applications through browsers.

Finagle is a library for building asynchronous RPC servers and clients in Java, Scala, or any JVM language.

This guide is intended to be read by beginners, but if you're average or somewhat advanced you can probably learn a few things too, especially when we start hitting the OTP chapters!

I like to figure out the fastest way to do things. I hope these shortcuts help you to become the power user that lies within. These keystrokes should work on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard and many still work on 10.4 Tiger. I will update for Mac OS 10.7 Lion once it’s released, so check back!

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"… handle dependencies and multiple versions I have wanted to switch over to pip and virtualenv."

As the name suggests, Sherpa is a total solution for all your navigation requirements.

Oracle released a technology preview this week a new version of MySQL that adds support for a Memcached plugin daemon for accessing InnoDB, MySQL's default storage engine. It's available from MySQL Labs. The plugin daemon is only available for Linux at this time.

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