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Slashdot | Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule

"Techworld has an in-depth chat with Simon Peyton-Jones about the development of Haskell and his philosophy of do one thing, and do it well. Peyton-Jones describes his interest in lazy functional programming languages, and chats about their increasing relevance in a world with rapidly increasing multi-core CPUs and clusters. 'I think Haskell is increasingly well placed for this multi-core stuff, as I think people are increasingly going to look to languages like Haskell and say 'oh, that's where we can get some good ideas at least', whether or not it's the actual language or concrete syntax that they adopt.'"

Haskell: del.icio.us tag/haskell

Slashdot | Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code

Brings up some interesting points about copyright law in the USA and the world.

License:GPL: del.icio.us tag/gpl

Slashdot | Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code

Brings up some interesting points about copyright law in the USA and the world.

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Slashdot | It's Not Time for OSS Release Cycle Synchronization

Whether or not synchronizing releases would be a good idea for open-source

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Slashdot | ExtJS 2.1 AJAX Library Switches To GPL

License:GPL: del.icio.us tag/gpl

Slashdot | Microsoft Suggests Carving Up HTML 5

Ian Hixie (who is the chief editor of the HTML 5 spec) even weighs in a couple of times in the comments

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Slashdot | Microsoft Agrees to Release Work Group Protocols

Microsoft releases the protocols used in Windows Work Group Server to a 3rd party. Samba will get the documentation to fully interoperate with Active Directory, and MS will give specific<sep/>

Samba: del.icio.us tag/samba

Slashdot | Linus on GIT and SCM

Linus Torvalds' distributed revision control tool, GIT

git: del.icio.us tag/git

Slashdot | Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Slashdot | Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3

Firefox: del.icio.us/tag/firefox

Slashdot | New Review Compares MythTV to Vista MCE

MythTV: del.icio.us/tag/mythtv

Slashdot | NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit

zfs: del.icio.us/tag/zfs

Slashdot | Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers?

Good comments discuss commercialization of GPLed code, how it's possible and why BSD license isn't necessary if you do your housekeeping.

opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource

Slashdot | Does GPL v3 Alienate Developers?

Good comments discuss commercialization of GPLed code, how it's possible and why BSD license isn't necessary if you do your housekeeping.

License:GPL: del.icio.us tag/gpl

Slashdot | Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On

Firefox: del.icio.us/tag/firefox

Slashdot | Rob Pike Responds

Includes some interesting comments on operating systems.

plan9: del.icio.us/tag/plan9

Slashdot | Podcasts of University Lectures?

Someone asks about podcasting uni lectures on /.

podcasting: del.icio.us tag/podcasting

Slashdot | 9 Open Source Companies to Watch

opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource

Slashdot - Google Announces Open Source Repository

opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource

Slashdot | Web Services and Open Source at OSCON

opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource

Slashdot | Open Source Game Development

Open Source Game Development: Qt Games for KDE, PDAs and Windows

opensource: del.icio.us tag/opensource

Slashdot | Improve Your iPod with Rockbox

The allure of the iPod is undeniable -- they're well-designed, sleek little music players that pack a lot of features into tiny packages. However, iPods fail to deliver when it comes to support for free codecs like Ogg Vorbis, and -- let's face it -- iTun

open-source: del.icio.us tag/open-source

Sourcefire Network Security - About Snort

snort: del.icio.us/tag/snort