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
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