Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 10:20 PM UTC

adambard wrote: post #104

drostie wrote: post #97

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If you don't mind my asking, as a Python person, how did you learn Clojure? I'm mostly programming in Python and JavaScript today, and I want to learn Clojure, but I keep seeing these very strange talks. I don't know how to articulate it, really. My best metaphor is, it feels a little like I wanted to go out and learn about Catholicism and they said, "oh, that's easy, we'll just have you sit in on a bunch of confessi…

4clojure.com was very helpful for me, as was this: http://jkkramer.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/clojure-python-side...

Post by ovatsus » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 10:22 PM UTC

Post by jamesaguilar » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 10:23 PM UTC

sreque wrote: post #216

veyron wrote: post #178

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How is this C#+.NET integration on mono? Are the relevant low-level facilities translated well into linux or osx?

I like Mono, and I respect the work that they've accomplished. It is incredibly difficult to build a runtime like .NET, especially as it was never designed to be cross-platform. That said, the Mono experience on Linux is inferior to that on Windows. MonoDevelop is nowhere near Visual Studio, so that I just develop on Windows and deploy on Linux. Unfortunately, that doesn't help the fact that both the soft and hard de…

Post by chrisb » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 10:25 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #184

hackinthebochs wrote: post #87

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Func is just the type signature they use for lambdas. The syntax allows fully inline functions now: () => { DoSomething(); } No return value needed (compiles down to an Action I think)

Can't recursively call a lambda function, no thanks.

  Func fib = null;
  fib = n => n > 1 ? fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2) : n;

  delegate Func Recursive(Recursive r);
  static Func Y(Func, Func> f) {
    Recursive rec = r => a => f(r(r))(a);
    return rec(rec);
  }

  Func fib = Y(f => n => n > 1 ? f(n - 1) + f(n - 2) : n);

Post by leon_ » Fri, Mar 23, 2012, 10:30 PM UTC