Andrew Kuchling:
Explaining things: math vs programming
["Years ago I tried to translate TeX's line-breaking algorithm into Python code. In Knuth's Computers and Typesetting, the algorithm is given in a Pascalish language. Some functions did lots of pointer shuffling that would be have been straightforward to translate into C, but to write Python code I had to actually disentangle the linked-list surgery to figure out whether it was list.append(x) or list.insert(0, x) or whatever."]
AP - Russian forces turned over 12 Georgian soldiers on the border of one of the separatist provinces under its control Thursday after the short war that outraged the West and brought Moscow's military deep into Georgia.
AP - Sen. Barack Obama dropped in on his own party at the Democratic convention a day early Wednesday to praise his wife, his former rival, and former President Bill Clinton for going to bat for him.
