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Interview with Salvatore Sanfilippo about Redis
Submitted by mudge on 6 March, 2011 - 22:36
http://blueparen.com/node/8

Salvatore Sanfilippo (or antirez) is author of Redis, an open source, key-value data store. Also known as a data structure server because values can be strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

http://blueparen.com/node/8

Interview With Albert Gräf - Author of the Pure Programming Language
Submitted by mudge on 1 March, 2011 - 12:12
http://blueparen.com/node/6

Albert Gräf is the author of the Pure programming language. Pure is a functional programming language based on term rewriting. It has a syntax featuring curried function applications, lexical closures and equational definitions with pattern matching, and thus is somewhat similar to languages of the Haskell and ML variety. Pure is also a dynamic language, and is more like Lisp in this respect. The interpreter has an LLVM backend that does JIT compilation.

http://blueparen.com/node/6

Interview With Andy Lester - Author of Grep Replacement Tool Ack
http://blueparen.com/node/5
Submitted by mudge on 28 February, 2011 - 09:51

Andy Lester is the author of ack, a grep-like text search tool designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.

ack searches directories recursively by default while skipping usually undesired directories and files such as version control directories, backup files, binary files etc. Some of its other capabilities and features include highlighting of search results, filtering files without searching them, and using real Perl regular expressions. ack is often used in place of grep.

Read the interview here: http://blueparen.com/node/5