Notices by Francesco P Lovergine (gisgeek@floss.social)

@anna
I would definitively recommend SFSCon in Bozen as an alternative meeting. Nice location and venue.

https://www.sfscon.it/

@civodul
There is a well-known deprecation policy for Python.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0387/

I like the deprecation documentation in Perl, which is very precise. Specifically, some features are introduced as experimental and possibly deprecated if they hurt more than they are perceived as an advantage.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perldeprecation

In the case of very large projects, like a distribution, I don't think a deprecation policy is really practical: there are too many variables due to subprojects....

@hgfernan
Scheme dialects implementations performances are among the most well-hidden secrets of computing. Ok, I'm joking, not so secrets, indeed 😂

This is a post about multiple #programming #languages #performances It's not too serious, but it's interesting enough.

https://lovergine.com/a-silly-benchmarking-of-some-programming-languages.html

@nixCraft Sigh, I even remember when it was 1.0, and compiled COM files only for DOS 2.11. I'm definitively not old, but ancient.