This is the sad true: parsing is boring. And writing parser is even worst.

If you can choose a scripting language for parsing you can think to do it in perl.

For …

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Book review by Stefano Fago: This book introduce one of most interesting  language of new wave of functional programming. You will find a complete overview of …

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I like a lot of programming languages. I do not love them with the same intensity.

I do not love Lisp for its ((syntax))), but Lisp rocks for its purity: in a …

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Ops I did it again. Although I repeatedly said I didn't love emacs Lisp, I finally managed to learn it. So I want to share with you my tips, to help entering in …
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Pandoc is an universal document converter to convert Markdown, Org-Mode, Html, Word documents from one markup format into another  After using different tools, …
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Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to …
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Sometimes I need a very very fast start on emacs. If you have the same need, put this in your init.el and live happy:

(cua-mode)
(setq select-active-region …

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