The “best practice” solution is a technique known as suffix trees, which requires some moderately complex coding. However, we can get very reasonable performance for strings up to hundreds of thousands of characters long using a much simpler approach.

source: HN

Allowing an argument to be passed in seven different ways may be convenient for the programmer writing the call, who can save a few seconds looking up the correct spelling of emailclass_name, but debugging what happens when elaborate and inconsistent arguments are misinterpreted will be eat up the gains many times over. Code is written once, and read many times, so we should be willing to spend more time writing it if it will save trouble reading it again later.

perl, but really all duck languages.

Very long, but still only touches the surface... Some good notes in the conclusion as well.

source: HN

I won’t try to sell you on Perl 6 here — I still don’t entirely understand the language, to be honest — but having spent a few days poking around its run-time, I will tell you that the virtual machine is a promising piece of systems work.

source: L