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In response to: Is Google's AdSense for you ?

Thanks for this info, will try those guys !

In response to: Use pings to increase traffic to your blog !

Blogrolling.com is a good and popular one too. :)

In response to: Developer Challenge #3

some more examples:

1 + 2 * 3 returns 7

but

(1 + 2) * 3 returns 9

and

3 * 1 + 2 returns 5

In response to: Developer Challenge #3

i dont know anything at all about that programming language, but i do know that when you test it, you should check to see if order of operations holds true. the sentence you used as input would output 21 whether it did it from left to right, or if it actually followed order of operations. anyway, you probably weren't even going for that, but it's just a suggestion.

In response to: Developer Challenge #2

I tried to make Python version as short as possible
Does your Ruby code actually work ?

When you find 5 line Python version then send it to me

In response to: PHP + Python = Killer Applications on Internet

Check out http://www.mamboportal.com/
I wrote portal in Python but after seeing mambo I can take off my hat to PHP crowd

In response to: Developer Challenge #2

I can't really say that I understand you python code cause it is so messed up :/

But If I understand correctly, in ruby this is:
puts p Dir['**/*.txt'].inject(0) { |tot,el|
tot+open(el).to_a.size
}

I guess it can be made shorte, tough, and even the python version should be of max 5 lines.

In response to: PHP + Python = Killer Applications on Internet

Why should I want to use php?
it is slow, it lacks so much things that languages like perl,pythoin or ruby have, and it is a bad agol-like language with ugly C-ish syntax.

And given that you're saying "use python+php" you don't have the availability problem, you can safely use pure python all the way down.

Forget php and live happier