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by Tom Scheinfeldt

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Entries from November 2009

Briefly Noted for November 10, 2009

November 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Google Programming Language: "Go" — Not sure if this is new or I just missed it somehow, but Google has released an open source systems programming language called “Go.” Noting that languages like Java and C++ are years (decades, even) old, the Go team aims to make the new language friendlier to today’s problems and [...]

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Briefly Noted for November 2, 2009

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Amazon Editors’ Picks for 2009 — Amazon.com has released its editors’ picks for the 100 best books of 2009. The “nearly unanimous choice” for the best book of the year is Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, which I haven’t read yet. But I can vouch for #7, Steig Larsson’s The Girl Who [...]

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