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Psyco is a module that optimizes Python applications on the fly. Numerous resources online describe how to use psyco in a Django-powered application to speed it up. Submit article

Django comes with an easy-to-use caching framework. With a few simple decorators, an application’s views are cached. Decorators can even be used to control upstream caches, such as those maintained by ISPs. Nevertheless, if a rendered view is customized with information individual to a user, these caching options cease to be useful. Submit article

FOOP is the concept of functional object oriented programming in newLISP. It originated in a thread on the newLISP forum and was officially added to the interpreter for newLISP 9.3. Submit article

Version 9.3 of newLISP has been released and has new functions to facilitate working with XML. newLISP has had the ability to parse XML data into an association list since version 6.10. 9.3 adds the ability to more easily traverse a parsed document and edit its contents. Submit article

Currying, known in Python land as partial application, is a technique in which a function taking multiple arguments composes a function that takes fewer arguments (in most languages, reducing to one, although this is not the case in Python) by partially applying it to given parameters. For example, a function, sum, might be used to [...]