Seven Languages in Seven Weeks ++ Great geek fun.
On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Jason Stirnaman <[email protected]> wrote: > I recommend going through > http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks > No, of course it's not exhaustive, but it offers an appreciation of some > modern languages, their differences, and the roots they derived from. > Every coder [their] language. Every language its coder :) > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marc > Chantreux > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:21:55PM +0000, Rich Wenger wrote: >> The proliferation of boutique "languages" is a cancer on our community. > > sure ... but i don't want to be stuck on PHP or python when i have the power > of perl inside my hands, other would argue perl is too hard for librarians > and go python, someone else will tell us all that yeah, his go server is 30 > times faster than our dynamic langages based ones. Guess what? They are all > right and it's a matter of what you need and how those languages will taste > to you. > > There is no silver bullet, so don't expect a cancer cure for the moment. > Sorry about that :) > > regards > -- > Marc Chantreux > Université de Strasbourg, Direction Informatique > 14 Rue René Descartes, > 67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX > ☎: 03.68.85.57.40 > http://unistra.fr > "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" > -- Abraham Lincoln
