Marty Kalin

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Chicago

I'm an academic in computer science (College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University) with wide experience in software development, mostly in production planning and scheduling (steel industry) and product configuration (truck and bus manufacturing). Details on books and other publications are available at

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Open Source Evangelist People's Choice Award Emerging Contributor Award 2019 Contributor Club Rust Author

Authored Content

Learning to program

The modern programmer: 10 must-read articles from this year

From SDKs to command-line utilities and more, this list offers plenty of insight for today's programmers.

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HTTP request routing and validation with gorilla/mux

The gorilla/mux package provides request routing, validation, and other services in a straightforward, intuitive API.

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Locks versus channels in concurrent Go

Compare two ways to share information with goroutines, one using synchronized shared memory and the other using channels.

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How to use screen scraping tools to extract data from the web

Learn how to use the HTML::TableExtract tool in Perl.

Databases as a service

Looking at the Lispy side of Perl

Perl simplifies code by supporting use of lambdas, unnamed functions that serve well for data-rich applications. Here are some examples.

Authored Comments

mkalin@depaul.edu

18 May 2021

What Google v. Oracle means for open source

Excellent explanation of a case that's had me confused for some time.
Thanks!

mkalin@depaul.edu

22 Aug 2019

Is Perl going extinct?

Nice article and interesting comments. Let's hope Perl remains among the living languages.