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Optimizing Development For Fun

Posted by Zonk on from the haskell-has-never-been-or-will-ever-be-fun dept.

chromatic writes "Geoff Broadwell has written an analysis of optimizing an open source project for fun, specifically the Pugs project. Broadwell argues that making development fun and easy leads to higher quality code and a faster velocity of development, even when implementing a frivolous project (a toy Perl 6 interpreter) in an uncommon language (Haskell). The Pugs leader, Autrijus Tang, will speak about both Pugs and Haskell at EuroOSCON."

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  1. totally off topic by jbaltz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My brother-in-law needs to tell O'Reilly to update his bio, since the birth of my nephew (his son) some few months ago...

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    I am the Lorvax, I speak for the machines.
  2. -1 Annoying by BKX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, learn to use enter. Make some paragraphs. Maybe add in some structure. Is that the entire article? WTF? Why did you waste our time with that post? Why did I waste my time writing this? Anyway, if you mod the parent down, my post won't be read, so don't bother modding me. I like my karma. And marijuana. And alcohol. Obviously. Heh heh.