Haskell. Here's another way to do it in the same language, using function composition and point-free style.

map (chr . (+32)) [45, 69, 82, 82, 89, 0, 35, 72, 89, 73, 83, 84, 77, 65, 83, 1]

Merry Xmas. I thought I'd try Haskell for the same time for Xmas and found I have to download it and import Data.Char first in case anyone else is trying!

Or in Perl:

  map{chr$_+32}(45,69,82,82,89,0,35,72,82,73,83,84,77,65,83,1)

shorter using pack:

  # shorts
  pack("s*",25933,29298,8313,26691,26994,29811,24941,8563)
  # longs
  pack("l*",1920099661,1749229689,1953720690,561209709)
  # 64-bit
  pack("q*",7512884309367350605,2410377348306397554)
  # hex
  pack("h*",d45627279702348627963747d6163712)

Julia has a Python syntax, optional typing, macros, maps, lists, expression quoting.

http://julialang.org/

Things like that have been tried:

Scheme's SRFI 49 (2003-2005, Final): "Indentation sensitive syntax": http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html

Lispin (2008): So utterly dead, we have to resort to the Internet Archive: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20080517144846id_/http://www....

cl-2dsyntax: http://www.cliki.net/cl-2dsyntax (Annoying exclamation marks in this one, oops).

CGOL (1973!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGOL

The last one shows you just how long people have been unsuccessfully trying to promote Algol-like syntaxes for Lisp.

Regarding whether you should learn a programming language, which can depend on how large the company is you're building and how busy that keeps you, if you're still at point 0 with an idea and little progress, learning to program can really help.

It also makes finding a programming cofounder easier because fewer programmers probably want to work on the cheap with a piece of a company that may never work out, but they will be willing to work with a fellow programmer as a cofounder on ideas that interest them both.

That's a weird sentiment to hold, that less expressive languages should be used to spark interest. If I were learning a first programming language again, I would want to learn a language that let me get going as quickly as possible. It takes a lot more to build something in C than in Python and Python can much more quickly prove to a person learning their first language that programming is worthwhile.

> That's a weird sentiment to hold, that less expressive languages should be used to spark interest.

Maybe you felt you had to jump in and defend high level languages, and maybe slash the other guy's tires on the way out, but this reads as trollish. Plenty of people working in C find it plenty expressive. Is it "more" or "less" expressive to choose to express different things? I don't think so. This comes off as uninformed C bashing, sadly very common and accepted around here.

The rest of your comment, that it is good for learning or as a first language, makes more sense to me.

He created Coffeescript, Backbone.js, and Underscore.js. Now works at NYT.

I also started Gödel, Escher, Bach. Have yet to finish the preface.

Discover Meteor: a book for the Meteorjs framework. Good book if you want to learn the framework.

I read a lot of fiction I guess. Now I am reading American Gods, and before that, Dune. Before Dune I read the 2 released books of The Kingkiller Chronicle.

In my experience, my macbook pro MAC address can be changed with the bash command listed in the file for wifi (sudo ifconfig en1 ether [addr]), but it will not let me change it to any arbitrary address I want, just some of them, including addresses that start with aa:[rest], ab:[rest], etc., which is what I usually go for. Just tested it and en0 doesn't seem to have the same limitations.

I've been using Meteor since this past September. Great to see there's only 1 more update prior to 1.0.

Maybe you're kidding but I'm not sure that's really how it works. I'm sure they will do as many updates as necessary prior to a 1.0 regardless of current numbering.

Last line of the blog entry announcing Blaze as the new feature in the 0.8.0 release: "Just one more big item to go before 1.0 now!"

Ah, OK. I stand corrected. Although I guess my comment isn't exactly incorrect.

Now that I've had time to check out the update in depth, I can say that this update actually affects my project in a huge way. It'll require refactoring probably around 500 of lines of code because of the elimination of {{#isolate}, {{#constant}} and preserve-inputs, and the new template.rendered functionality.

What happens in 1.0? Is it primarily the marketing buzz you're looking forward to, or is there a specific feature?

More the just marketing buzz, imo. I know the IntelliJ guys have said they will build in first-class Meteor support once it hits 1.0.

I'm looking forward to a more stable API. I think a lot of things are solidified by this 0.8.0 release, but working up to it I've had to deal with a lot of upstream changes that forced me to refactor a lot of code. Of course, its all in the name of progress and the Meteor community is super helpful and friendly, so no big whoop.

The last major hurdle for 1.0 (as I understand it) is final integration work with Atmosphere and updates to the package management system. While this is no small feat, it is far less of an engineering hurdle than either Blaze or the opLog tailing which was implemented in 0.7.0.

I'm looking forward to each template having its own local reactive state so that I can get away from storing everything in session variables, which are global.

Without this feature, it's hard (or harder than it should be) to create reusable user interface code.

Here's another app for torrents: http://jstorrent.com. It is a torrent client itself, no outside client needed, though proprietary.

Luckily the Way Back Machine has a version where the images still exist.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061030081028/http://infolab.sta...

There's a grainy photo of his Stanford student ID as well.