Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

2011-09-28 Thread Roger Critchlow
I think we need a David Letterman/Jimmy Fallon top 10/thank you list of programming languages: Ruby - thank you the slowest implementation of really cool concepts ever made Python - thank you for never sorting any list of anything before the UI window turns grey C++ - thank you for all the feature

Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

2011-09-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Among the most-cited these languages are named or implied: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=2&topDomainID=2&subDomainID=24 AspectJ Metaobject protocols (Common Lisp / CLOS) Haskell Scheme ML Java FRIAM Appl

Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

2011-09-28 Thread Owen Densmore
I think they would consider R a "Domain Specific Language" which they appear to not categorize. NetLogo, Processing, SCSS, Shockwave, AppleScript, Groovy etc, for example are not included. Fascinating that Cobal ranks around the same as Fortran. Weird 'cause Fortran is included in all the mathem

Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

2011-09-28 Thread Brent Auble
One language missing from that site is R (understandably since it's really tough to search accurately for a single letter, although they seem to do it for C and D...)  It's also tough because most R package development is done on the R-Forge site or just uploaded to CRAN, so there's no good way

Re: [FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

2011-09-28 Thread Douglas Roberts
Nice. Thanks, Tom. --Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > The Top 10 Programming Languages They

[FRIAM] The Top 10 Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Johnson
The Top 10 Programming Languages They're mostly ones you'd expect'and then there's Lua http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-top-10-programming-languages?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29 -tj

[FRIAM] Introducing Amazon Silk | Amazon Silk

2011-09-28 Thread Owen Densmore
So Silk does indeed split the client into two parts: renderer and proxy: http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazon-silk/ The proxy is pretty smart: cacheing all the very common fragments of a page such as jQuerry and favicons/images. It also optimizes images for various dev

[FRIAM] Amazon unveils $199 Kindle Fire tablet, Kindle Touch for $99 - Yahoo! News

2011-09-28 Thread Owen Densmore
Interesting set of *four* new Amazon products: http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-unveils-199-kindle-fire-tablet-kindle-touch-151224521.html Kindle Fire (no 3G) for $199; Kindle Touch (no 3G) for $99; Kindle Touch 3G for $149; Kindle for $79. Notes: no camera on the Fire (tablet), but has a "split" br