As a follow-up to my post about my personal history of programming languages, cartesiandaemon asked me to expand on "which language(s) do you use most now (C and Python?) and what improvements would you like to see in them?"

( from __future__ import delorean )

I didn't actually expect to manage a proper December-days post today, so didn't schedule any prompts there. Last night we went to Midnight Mass; J was a bit overwhelmed by the volume during the carol service but otherwise it went well, and my "Creator alme siderum" solo after communion was well-received. (Best compliment: a choirmistress telling ( Read more... )

For Christmas Eve, ghoti asked me to talk about my favourite carol.

( Noël, Noël )

I'm catching up on these postings a bit today after a lovely but busy couple of days, including going with ghoti to help to celebrate Chanukah over at
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As a follow-up to my post about programming languages,
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ghoti asked me: "if you had total free choice, money/time no object for a holiday, where would you go and what would you do?"

( we're all going on a summer holiday )

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I've had several days of prompts that involved really quite complex and thoughtful answers, so it's helpful that today I have a completely frivolous one:
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pentamer asked me to write about music. I briefly covered this in my post on art earlier in the month, but let's expand on that a bit.

( do re mi )