Artful Code

Among the various methods of extending Python about which I have written, Python 2.5′s ctypes module is possibly the easiest. Submit article

Tim Johnson has updated his emacs newLISP-mode. I’ve added a few customizations and posted them in projects. Changelog for 0.25 Added functions for sexp-cursor movement: newlisp-indent-and-move-next, newlisp-indent-and-move-back, newlisp-prev-opening-parens, newlisp-next-opening-parens Improved newlisp-next-function, newlisp-previous-function I made a few changes to his mode to make it suit me more: Changed the symbol color from magenta to plum. I [...]

One of the handier features of modern functional languages like Erlang and OCaml is the use of unification to match arity against function definitions. The ability to define a function in terms of the type and number of arguments passed is both expressive and useful. Submit article

The template module was inspired largely by the Django template system. I firmly believe that separating complex logic from the template itself leads to both cleaner code and, much more importantly, a simpler system for non-programmers. A content producer should not be required to know lisp to write a simple template. Submit article

Together, these two modules form a coherent replacement for the newLISP CGI module. They can be found here. Submit article