Links Of The Week 2

Links Of The Week 2 :

I'm testing the next version of the WikiB markup language, we can now add a nice Table Of Contents and some maths rendering like this one $\reverse\opaque \LARGE e^x=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{x^n}{n!}$ (in fact it was build from the start, but I don't like it because of the poor gif rendering):

LaTeX world
Python world
Functionnal programming
Languages to consider
Others

LaTeX world

The new Geogebra version added a nice feature : you can export your figures in Tikz format (it is an online version, not downloadable yet).
TeXworks is a new LaTeX IDE using Qt4 for the GUI. It is experimental for the moment, but got it to work fine on my XP SP2 machine. What you can see here is a PDF viewer thanks to the Poppler lib.
TeXample is the new site on LaTeX and Tikz/PGF from Kjell Magne Fauske. Full of visual examples, it is build with the help of the Django framework. Sources are avaible.
If you want to improve your LaTeX coding, visit the TeXblog, it's full of nice advices, ie how to use the description list environment (do you ever know it exists ?):

Python world

The new Tarek Ziadé's book Expert Python Programming
Komodo IDE 5.0 Beta 1 is out with full of new features!
Universal Encoding Detector is a character encoding auto-detection in Python. It is said "As smart as your browser !".
The hidden features of Python is really worth a look (there are also plenty of other languages).
SchemePy is a project to embed a Scheme interpreter inside Python. I really like the logo mixin :)

Functionnal programming

You can check The adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland, it's a very nice series about a Pythoner coming to Scheme.
Scheme Is Love even from a guy on MicroSoft"s side.
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! is a new Haskell tutorial worth reading.
And if you want to give Haskell a try, don't forget The Haskell Cheatsheet.

Languages to consider

the latest Rebol version (2.7.6) has really impressed me. The language is really novative, multiplatform, quick, and come with it's own GUI. The developpers are working on imporoving it with a new 3.0 version.
Clojure is always on my totest list, as for Scala.
Factor seems to be a great stack based language on paper, I need to take some time to try it.
Delight is an imperative, object-oriented programming language with a Python-like syntax. Internally, it is based on the D programming language.