19 7 / 2009

Some of the smartest programmers I know are also the most well rounded.

No one can deny that Why the Lucky Stiff is a strong advocate for Ruby, yet he knows Python well enough to write a bytecode converter that targets it.

Last year I switched to zsh because Christian Neukirchen recommended it, yet he is conversant with the next version of Bash, comparing and contrasting their features with ease.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been using the Mercurial distributed source code management…