Many thanks to Erik, whose linkblog is such a great source of reading material that it’s about to become my browser startup page:

• Mitch Kapor quits Groove board

• Apocalypse 6 is out (here it is - In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5’s subroutines is that they’re not crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by the Conservation of Cruft Principle.)

This is an interesting read. Long, though. And Perl isn’t getting any simpler. It looks like a lot of the language changes are to help out the compiler, and make it possible for it to optimize the hell out of your code, which is always a good thing, though :)

But then, if Dan wants to win his bet with Guido, he’s going to have to get it to do the same thing to Python code, without the code hints. I wonder …

• ArrayList vs Vector (I was told awhile back Vector sucked and was only still in there for backwards compatablity.)

And from the same page:

• PHP 4.3.0 released (The Apache 2 moduel is still experiemental though.)

I was pleased to find out a while back that mod_python works just fine with Apache 2. Thus, my current favourite way to develop web apps on Windows without sacrificing cross-platform compatibility is with Apache, Python and Interbase, with mod_python and kinterbasdb gluing everything together.