Re: [Dorset] Rob Pike on What's Wrong with Common Programming Languages Today.

yo Ralph, > Ah, I'm preaching to the converted!  :-) now looking forward to meeting you in person -- two old guys losing themselves in reminiscences!! LOL -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-08-04 20:00 http://dors

Re: [Dorset] Rob Pike on What's Wrong with Common Programming Languages Today.

Hi jr, > interesting observation. Ritchie, Kernighan, Pike, Plauger -- all of > the books these guys wrote are worth having on the shelf, IMO. Ah, I'm preaching to the converted! :-) Yes, definitely. You missed out Jon Bentley and his programming pearls, BTW. Also, Aho and Ullman are good o

Re: [Dorset] Rob Pike on What's Wrong with Common Programming Languages Today.

hi Ralph, > I suspect the writing style is down to Kernighan. interesting observation. Ritchie, Kernighan, Pike, Plauger -- all of the books these guys wrote are worth having on the shelf, IMO. > If you enjoyed TPoP then consider Kernighan and Pike's _The Unix > Programming Environment_. I'm p

Re: [Dorset] Rob Pike on What's Wrong with Common Programming Languages Today.

> It starts with shell scripts and moves on to make, C, yacc, etc. It's > not trying to teach you those, just introduces and uses them as it > gets across the principles of Unix. To clarify, it doesn't assume you know, e.g. yacc, it explains it as it introduces it, but it isn't trying to teach y

Re: [Dorset] Rob Pike on What's Wrong with Common Programming Languages Today.

Hi jr, > Pike is also a very good author, I love the clear and concise style of > 'The Practice of Programming' which he co-authored with Brian > Kernighan. Yes, it's an excellent book. I was pleased to find some errors in one piece of code shortly after it came out in 1999, only to find on the

Re: [Dorset] Rob Pike on What's Wrong with Common Programming Languages Today.

hi Ralph, > A twelve-minute video of Rob Pike's OSCon talk is on youtube. thank you for this link. Pike is also a very good author, I love the clear and concise style of 'The Practice of Programming' which he co-authored with Brian Kernighan. -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit fl

[Dorset] Rob Pike on What's Wrong with Common Programming Languages Today.

Hi, A twelve-minute video of Rob Pike's OSCon talk is on youtube. He discusses what's wrong with today's popular programming languages and briefly covers how he, Thompson, etc., have tried to fix that with Google's Go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE (Pike was at Bell Labs for t