Programming Languages: What tool is right for which job?

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Post by obiterdictum » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 2:25 PM UTC

Programming Languages: What tool is right for which job?
therighttool.hammerprinciple.com

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Post by randysavage25 » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 3:26 PM UTC

Haskell.

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Post by qqqqqq » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

Is it me, or do a lot of the 'statement' links not seem to load?

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Post by obiterdictum » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 3:42 PM UTC

qqqqqq wrote: post #3

Is it me, or do a lot of the 'statement' links not seem to load?

I can't get the index page now. Sorry, I think the traffic from HN may have killed it. :(

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Post by joshbaptiste » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 3:47 PM UTC

qqqqqq wrote: post #3

Is it me, or do a lot of the 'statement' links not seem to load?

Heh indeed, and in a couple a days "How I improved my site after Hacker news etc..."

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Post by EvanMiller » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

qqqqqq wrote: post #3

Is it me, or do a lot of the 'statement' links not seem to load?

It is possible they didn't use the right tool for the job.

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Post by adbge » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

Something the site didn't answer, what high-level languages are suitable for writing highly-parallel network code? I need to write some code that does stuff like: given a couple million URLs, download each, extract an element, gather all extracted elements in a list.

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Post by sinope » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 4:31 PM UTC

adbge wrote: post #7

Something the site didn't answer, what high-level languages are suitable for writing highly-parallel network code? I need to write some code that does stuff like: given a couple million URLs, download each, extract an element, gather all extracted elements in a list.

Erlang

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Post by andreipop » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

joshbaptiste wrote: post #5

qqqqqq wrote: post #3

Is it me, or do a lot of the 'statement' links not seem to load?

Heh indeed, and in a couple a days "How I improved my site after Hacker news etc..."

Yup getting 503s all over the place.

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Post by rayiner » Sun, Nov 27, 2011, 4:44 PM UTC

randysavage25 wrote: post #2

Haskell.

Lisp.