Monthly Archives: September 2004

Korean Pronunciation: 몇

Posted on 9/27/2004 by Moses

Korean pronunciation is pretty difficult. Here is a not atypical example of the kinds of craziness that can occur. The word for “how many” in Korean is 몇. For the uninitiated, that character is a Hangul syllable composed of three … Continue reading →

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Ruby’s block/closure support

Posted on 9/27/2004 by Moses

I’ve been playing around with Ruby lately, because I hear it’s an interesting scripting language. Like many other people, I have enjoyed the block/closure support that the language offers. For example, when creating an array, you can pass a block … Continue reading →

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Why is BioPerl the favorite?

Posted on 9/11/2004 by Moses

BioPerl is the most successful (as far as I can tell) of the various Open Bioinformatics Foundation projects. To me this is strange, because most programmers I know (and here I am including programmers outside the field of bioinformatics) find … Continue reading →

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