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SciPy 2004 Papers

...are online. The PyTables (PDF) work is intriguing. It offers high-speed, high-volume access to HDF. Somewhere along the way came a comparison of HDF to PDB from the (old?) PACT project at LLNL.

By Mark Evans at 2004-12-01 05:42 | Python | login or register to post comments | other blogs | 6031 reads

VHS

The main purpose of this project is to provide an extension of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development environment with support for the Haskell functional programming language, improve user experience and productivity related to implementation tasks.

Download and play, I say.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-12-01 12:25 | Functional | 1 comment | other blogs | 4978 reads

Downwardly Scalable Languages

I have written some musings that I may keep growing into more of an article, but I thought I'd link to it here:
A lot of thought has been dedicated to scalability in computer systems. However, outside of the embedded systems arena, most of this effort has gone into making systems ever larger and faster.
For a change, let's have a look at downwardly scalable systems - systems that work well where resources are not abundant. Going beyond considering systems that don't place hefty requirements on the hardware (CPU, disk, memory, bandwidth), we wish to consider "human resources" - people, and the effects that downwardly scalable systems have on development.
http://www.dedasys.com/articles/scalable_systems.html

I'm still mulling the subject over in my head, but I like the concept a lot.

By David N. Welton at 2004-12-01 17:20 | LtU Forum | 10 comments | other blogs | 6482 reads