The vi/vim editor is arguably one of the most powerful text editors! But working with vi requires the usage of many commands. One of the first things we learnt in school was “A for Apple, B for Ball, C for Cat…”. It is time to relearn that if we have to work on vi! Now […]

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After the successful completion of the 2-day hackathon, the team came out with a new web programming language (tentatively named WPL) that has significant advantages over the conventional method of programming for the web. A wiki is being created to show samples of WPL code and the generated HTML, and will be online shortly here. […]

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I notice that there are many students and developers out there who have not properly understood how inheritance is to be applied in programs. They sometimes create a mess because of improper designing of class relationships, armed with their syntactic knowledge of inheritance! Any programmer can derive class B from class A, but only a […]

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The Challenge: Invention of a Web Programming Language (tentatively codenamed WPL) that can replace/unify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, SQL and CGI scripts!

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There are quite a couple of occasions where my students have asked me the difference between programming and scripting (or programs and scripts). I thought the time has finally come for me to write an article on it and close the case!

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