With the proliferation of multi-core processors, I'd say Erlang, or any other
language that makes programming multi-threaded or parallel processing
applications easier than it has been.
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Bill Barr
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I'm putting in a second for Erlang.
I looked at it a bit back, but I'm still waiting for a time to take it
further. (I really want a proof of concept on something at work, but I
think I'll wait for a few more months to present it...)
On 6/19/07, Art Gramlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I'll
On 6/20/07, eric biesterfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm putting in a second for Erlang.
I looked at it a bit back, but I'm still waiting for a time to take it
further. (I really want a proof of concept on something at work, but I
think I'll wait for a few more months to present it...)
Just
On 6/18/07, Thomas Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (2ed)
by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman.
Not really *about* Scheme, uses Scheme for CS concepts.
This is available online (free):
Wow, fantastic...thanks Andrew. And thanks to Bashar for the JScheme
reference also.
Here are some other Scheme references that might be useful:
Kawa: Scheme on top of Java VM:
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Features.html
Schemers.org: which is an improper list of Scheme resources (nerd
On 6/19/07, Art Gramlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erlang - You should at least work through the tutorial for it (and if
you haven't seen it watch the video where they do live updates to the
system).
I think you mean this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5830318882717959520
It's
At 10:08 AM 6/19/2007, you wrote:
On 6/19/07, Art Gramlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erlang - You should at least work through the tutorial for it (and if
you haven't seen it watch the video where they do live updates to the
system).
I think you mean this:
Yup. That's it.
On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Chad Woolley wrote:
On 6/19/07, Art Gramlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erlang - You should at least work through the tutorial for it (and if
you haven't seen it watch the video where they do live updates to the
system).
I think you mean this:
Since processors will be multiplying instead of speeding up in the
future, I think erlang or something similar has got a lot of
potential. Having the language handle multithreading for you is huge,
given how hard it is in other languages.
On 6/19/07, Thomas Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At
Also, because of the message passing and functional nature,
you don't have to worry about locking resources between the processes
(threads).
Makes a whole class of issues go away (and introduces a few other ones).
On Jun 19, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Chad Woolley wrote:
Since processors will be
Like the one comment said on your web page: depends on your goals.
Are you just trying to learn more about synthetic language (as opposed
to natural language)? If so, Scheme, Scala, and Haskell all embody
some fascinating concepts in language typology.
My favorite: get a version of Scheme with
BTW -- I forgot to mention that if you are heavily into string and text
processing it still pays to learn Icon, our locally-developed language.
It's a now dated, but many of its pioneering features have influenced
the current crop of scripting languages (as acknowledged in their
documentation)
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote:
Like the one comment said on your web page: depends on your goals.
Actually they just asked why I would want to learn a new language at
all. Which quite honestly is not a good question, I feel that all
programmers should learn new
At 09:56 AM 6/18/2007, you wrote:
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote:
Like the one comment said on your web page: depends on your goals.
Actually they just asked why I would want to learn a new language at
all. Which quite honestly is not a good question, I feel that all
Bill's back East for vacation, so I probably just beat him to it. ;)
-t
At 09:59 AM 6/18/2007, you wrote:
I was wondering when Icon was going to come up ;-). I knew it was
either going to be you or Bill :-P.
-warner
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote:
BTW -- I forgot to
The correct answer should be I don't know yet. I've been writing code
for almost 40 years now (quite a trick given that I'm only 39!) and have
lost count of the number of languages and psuedo-languages I've learned
over the years. What I do know is this - whenever I try to learn, or learn
about,
On Jun 18, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote:
At 09:56 AM 6/18/2007, you wrote:
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Thomas Hicks wrote:
Like the one comment said on your web page: depends on your goals.
Actually they just asked why I would want to learn a new language at
all. Which quite
On Jun 18, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Jim Secan wrote:
The correct answer should be I don't know yet. I've been writing
code
for almost 40 years now (quite a trick given that I'm only 39!) and
have
lost count of the number of languages and psuedo-languages I've
learned
over the years. What I do
If your goal is to get a marketable skill, I'd say Ruby/Rails. Lots
of Rails jobs out there, and more every day - especially if you want
to move to the Bay Area :)
On 6/17/07, Warner Onstine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I've posted up a little thing on my blog about what should be my next
At 02:02 PM 6/18/2007, Warner wrote:
As I say in my blog one of the reasons to learn a new language is
just that - to see how another language approaches problems so that
I'm not stymied into thinking one way is the only way. In other
terms, because I have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
You might find JSchem interesting:
http://jscheme.sourceforge.net/jscheme/main.html
Bashar
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On Jun
At 08:42 PM 6/18/2007, Warner wrote:
There was an article that my co-worker James sent me (that I can't
find) that talked about functional languages and the new multi-core
architectures and how learning a functional language wouldn't be a
bad thing. (If you do a google on functional language
Hi all,
I've posted up a little thing on my blog about what should be my next
language, feel free to chime in (there or here).
http://www.warneronstine.com/blog/articles/2007/06/17/next-language-
to-learn
-warner
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