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Is it all about IntelliSense?
I just started doing some work with Python for the first time, it seems like a nice language but I'm still too new to it to make any real judgments. Parenthetically, when did Python overtake Perl as the cool dynamic programming language on the block?
Over the course of evaluating some of the Python IDE's and struggling through the first days of the new programming language, I started to wonder if the success of .Net, and to some extent the debate about statically typed and dynamically typed languages, is really all about IntelliSense.
I mean of course the CLR and the .Net framework are world class bits of engineering, and I imagine the verifiability of statically typed languages is truly useful under some requirements. But for large majority of programming tasks, having your editor tell you the type of the third argument to the function you want call is where the true value of statically typed languages and the .Net Framework is at.
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Avalon CTP - no speech recognition support
I took a brief look at the Avalon CTP tonight. And really, all I want to know, is where is the speech recognition support? It appears that managed support for the Text Services Framework is baked into the System.Windows.Input namespace, and that there's plenty of support for tablet input, but nothing for speech recognition. This is terribly disappointing.
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Wiki Graffiti
I got my first bit of wiki graffiti today, spam I would be able to understand, but this was a simple defacing of the site.
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Programming by voice - Visual Studio.net addin
For some of us coders who suffer from RSI, programming by voice is something of a holy grail. There are a fair number of false starts, and aborted attempts. It's a hard problem, the people who are most likely to want it, and be willing to work on a solution, are the same people who are unable to do so.
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The Last Configuration Section Handler You'll Ever Need, take 4
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The Last Configuration Section Handler You'll Ever Need, take 3
Yet another update the last configuration section handler you will ever need.