Picolisp because:
Lisp
Prolog
Tightly coupled, distributed DB queried with prolog
Tightly coupled UI engine
Everything under emacs
Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
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Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clojure has mutability and a lot of its idiomatic abstractions are object oriented in nature.
But exactly. The so-called OO languages are worse at the key tenets of OO paradigm: polymorphism and message passing. I didn't even attempt to clarify that in my original post so forgive me for that.
I'm a sizable clojure fan (and a long time Python developer) but I'm not sure where you'd say Python fails at polymorphism or message passing too strongly.
Interfaces/traits maybe (z.i is quite crusty) but it's just as good at polymorphism.
Mutability though yes -- hope you're aware of https://pyrsistent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I use it in every project I write.
Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#73Shell made me a lot more agile to do various simple tasks which would take me time for repetition.
Learn a text editor deeply (Sublime) made me extremely faster than all my colleagues.
I, as an addicted to efficiency, found my job a lot funnier everytime I learn something that makes my common task less time consuming.
Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#74After about 8 years of Java only, JavaScript. Then Clojure.
Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#75Rails circa 2006. I could develop a full web app in days or weeks instead of weeks or months with Java.
Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#76- Turbo Pascal when I was programming in RPG II
- Delphi when I was programming in Turbo Pascal
- AWS
Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#77Trying out competitive programming really improved my coding ability in any programming language. Recently I tried out Ruby on Rails which blows my mind and changed my view about frameworks(It is really 10 times faster then java to create a web app). Previously I had written web apps in java and node js.
Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#78I started as a backend Java engineer for a large ISP. I loved it, I didn't what to do anything else.
When I joined a consulting agency they put me in a company that had pretty good
backend engineers. What they completely lacked was the frontend part.
The product developer and the customers demanded a more dynamic interface but none of tech seemed to care.
All said 'it's not possible'.
So I started learning JavaScript, learned AngularJS (which was brand new at that time and fitted great in the corporate/enterprise setting), built a couple of sideprojects and then started evangelizing Product and Dev.
I was allowed to improve a first Product, which was a great success. Then every product developer wanted webapps.
So I started teaching developers at the company and the consulting agency.
This taught me: Find the tool that does the job. Even if you think the tool looks stupid.
Re: Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
#79From Php to Java and now Rust. Though rust is not prominent yet, I'm sure I will have a lot of fun when it would go mainstream.
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#80Zope in 1998 was a complete game-changer.
Wow that brings back memories. Is that still used/supported?
Yes, the Plone CMS still runs on Zope2. https://plone.com
The ZODB (Zope Object Database) is also still going strong: http://www.zodb.org