Features

• Interview with Guido van Rossum  by James Gray
  The new Python 3000 is bounding beyond Python 2. Python creator Guido van Rossum explains why you've got to try it.
  
• A Tale of Two Languages  by Daniel Bartholomew
  Not all programming languages are created for automating spreadsheets and device drivers—some, like Inform 6 and 7, were created specifically for making games.
  
• Shell Scripting with a Distributed Twist: Using the Sleep Scripting Language  by Raphael Mudge
  A language for practical extraction and reporting with mobile agents?
  
• The Falcon Programming Language in a Nutshell  by Giancarlo Niccolai
  Messages can carry anything, including methods or whole Sigma sequences for remote execution in foreign objects.
  

Indepth

• State of the Art: Linux Audio 2008, Part II  by Dave Phillips
  Dave Phillips weighs in on the production side of music and sound software for Linux.
  
• The Well-Tempered PHP Developer  by Federico Kereki
  PHP developers can get a comfortable, powerful environment with Eclipse plus some well-chosen plugins.
  
• Enlightenment—the Next Generation of Linux Desktops  by Jay Kruizenga
  Discover E, and unlock the secrets of Enlightenment.
  

Columns

• Shawn Power's Current_Issue.tar.gz   10 PRINT "Hello World"' 20 GOTO 10  
  
• Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   Unobtrusive JavaScript  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Imaginary Languages  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Movie Trivia—Finally!  
  
• Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin   Interview with Marcus Meissner  
  
• Kyle Rankin's Hack and /   Wii Will Rock Linux  
  
• Doc Searls' EOF   Why We Need Hackers to Fix Health Care  
  

Reviews

• Load Me Up, Load Me Down  by Dan Sawyer
  
• Review of Scalent's Virtual Operating Environment  by Logan G. Harbaugh
  

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