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Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by lg »

prakash wrote: post #72
DaniFong wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're doing real time control for vehicles, which has to handle, among other things, valve timing, fuel flow, the transmission, suspension adjustments, braking. We can't afford to have the system break, and Erlang is built for mission critical systems, giving us quality primitives for handling concurrency and software breakage. But in Erlang records and math are kinda broken, and we needed both. Hence, LFE.

Thanks! Is there a link to the project?

http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=43950#43950

It's awesome. But, the shell is a little neutered, i.e. it breaks on (lambda (x) x)...hopefully that'll be fixed soon.

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by richcollins »

ardit33 wrote: post #45
compay wrote: post #29

Lua An elegant, minimalistic and fast scripting language. It's like Javascript without all the cruft.

i second that. Lua is very much fun to work with. It has actually full closures, upvars, and functions are first class citizen. The only thing is lacking a little bit of OO design. It is duable, but OO on lua always feels a little bit hacky.

If you like Lua, but want OO, try Io:

http://iolanguage.com/

It was inspired by Lua (among others).

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by aupajo »

cstejerean wrote: post #35
prakash wrote: post #23

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My thought process was, if Python and/or Ruby is on the to learn list, they would look at both, but go with one of them.

Unless of course you already know Python and want to learn Ruby next (or the other way around).

I know Ruby and want to get into Python.

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by stcredzero »

qwph wrote: post #81
rincewind wrote: post #10

Smalltalk

I'm currently reading a book about Smalltalk - does that count?

Why just read the book? Download Squeak - a bit far from the mainstream expectations, but it's free in the best sense. Or you can get VisualWorks Non-Commercial. (There's a very under-appreciated ASP-like web app framework in VisualWorks!)

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by jamongkad »

richcollins wrote: post #94
ardit33 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i second that. Lua is very much fun to work with. It has actually full closures, upvars, and functions are first class citizen. The only thing is lacking a little bit of OO design. It is duable, but OO on lua always feels a little bit hacky.

If you like Lua, but want OO, try Io: http://iolanguage.com/ It was inspired by Lua (among others).

Love Lua too bad it's web framework is leagues behind other languages frameworks. Otherwise it's a sweet language.

Re: Poll: Which programming language do you plan on learning next?

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Post by hbien »

Hates_ wrote: post #5

Objective C

I started diving into it 4 months ago for fun. At first, I didn't like its syntax style. In case anyone is wondering, this is what I'm talking about:

object.message(arg1, arg2) vs. [object messageOne:arg1 Two:arg2]

But now I'm really enjoying it and working at it full time.

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