TIOBE Software: TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007! ['Python has been declared as programming language of 2007. It was a close finish, but in the end Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (2.04%). There is no clear reason why Python made this huge jump in 2007. Last month Python surpassed Perl for the first time in history, which is an indication that Python has become the 'de facto' glue language at system level. It is especially beloved by system administrators and build managers. Chances are high that Python's star will rise further in 2008, thanks to the upcoming release of Python 3.']

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The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should 
soon be at your favorite mirror. 
Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College 
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: 
Name of contribution: newcommand 
Author's name: Scott Pakin 
Location on CTAN: /support/newcommand 
Summary description: Easily generate complex LaTeX macro definitions 
License type: lppl 
Announcement text: 
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LaTeX's \newcommand is fairly limited in the way it processes 
optional arguments, but the TeX alternative, a batch of \defs 
and \futurelets, can be overwhelming to the casual LaTeX user. 
newcommand.py is a Python program that automatically generates 
LaTeX macro definitions for macros that require more powerful 
argument processing than \newcommand can handle. 
newcommand.py is intended for LaTeX advanced beginners (i.e., those 
who know how to use \newcomm...

2008-01-13T11:32:06

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Lieber Kollege Koch -- das sollten Sie sich mal ansehen ;-)

Openbook zu Python 2.5 online: Ab sofort steht zeitgleich zur Neuerscheinung des Buches die aktuelle Auflage von Python - Das umfassende Handbuch von Peter Kaiser und Johannes Ernesti als HTML-Version zur Online-Lektüre und zum Download auf der Website von Galileo Computing zur Verfügung. Die gedruckte Version kann man natürlich auch weiterhin kaufen. [Galileo Press]

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Obwohl die Probleme m.E. auch woanders liegen ...

Ka-Ping Yee: Building Reliable Voting Machine Software ['I examine the question of how to design election-related software, with particular attention to the threat of insider attacks, and propose the goal of simplifying the software in electronic voting machines. I apply a technique called prerendering to reduce the security-critical, voting-specific software by a factor of 10 to 100 while supporting similar or better usability and accessibility, compared to today's voting machines. Smaller and simpler software generally contributes to easier verification and higher confidence. I demonstrate and validate the prerendering approach by presenting Pvote, a vote-entry program that allows a high degree of freedom in the design of the user interface and supports synchronized audio and video, touchscreen input, and input devices for people with disabilities. Despite all its capabilities, Pvote is just 460 lines of Python code; thus, it directly addresses the conflict between flexibility and reliability that underlies much of the current controversy over electronic voting.']

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Occasionally I implement an algorithm recursively then hit the recursion limit in Python.
For example, I just wrote this:

def clique(self, node, done=None): 
    if done is None: 
        done = set() 
    done.add(node) 
    for other_node in self.edges_by_node[node]: 
        if other_node not in done: 
            self.clique(other_node, done) 
    return done 

which hits a limit if the graph is too big.
So I rewrote it like this:

 
def clique(self, start_node): 
    done = set() 
    to_do = [start_node] 
    while to_do: 
        node = to_do.pop() 
        done.add(node) 
        for other_node in self.edges_by_node[node]: 
            if other_node not in done: 
                to_do.append(other_node) 
    return done 

There's a simple relationship between the two, quite independent of the specific task at hand. Which got me thinking about abstracting the specific task out of the recursive versus non-recursive pattern.
I guess I was having an SICP moment :-)

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Nun ... der nächste Artikel ist auch verfügbar ...

Willy-Brandt-Gesamtschule nutzt Handys statt Computer Informatik-Projekt ist zugleich auch medienpädagogisch sinnvoll

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Wir hatten heute Besuch ...

Bergkamen. Obwohl an der Willy-Brandt-Gesamtschule offiziell noch 'Handy-Verbot' herrscht - im Informatik-Unterricht von Ludger Humbert sind die mobilen Piepser sogar erwünscht. ...

[ Datum/Zeit: ] Thu, 13. Dec 2007 22:41:05 CET
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WR, Von Bernd Peters
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Golem und folgend Jörg meldet, was auf unseren Mobiltelefonen schon seit Anfang November d.J. läuft -- allerdings mit Python ;-)

PAMP - Apache, MySQL und PHP kommen auf S60-Smartphones: Nokia will sein Smartphone-Betriebssystem S60 mit einem Webserver-Stack ausstatten und hat dazu (Personal) Apache, MySQL und PHP auf S60 portiert. Apache für S60 gibt es bereits seit geraumer Zeit, im Januar 2008 sollen MySQL und PHP offiziell folgen. [Golem.de]

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