"I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
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Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#2Proper schemas (based on an algebraic type system) with a simple serialisation would indeed go a long way.
Sadly, there's still too much choice there as well. Even worse, many would reject the very idea.
Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#3This is very well written. A very interesting and verbose (not in a bad way) way of answering the everpresent question "What language should I learn?"
PS: Yes, I know that not the whole discussion was about this question. Still.
Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#4>> Notice there is no quick fix here - if you want a quick fix go buy "learn PHP in ten minutes" and spend the next twenty years googling for "how do I compute the length of a string"
I couldn't agree more on that one.
Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#5For when the moderators inevitably change this post to reflect the page's actual title, here's the title under which it was originally submitted:
I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented itRe: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#6>> Things improved - I went to CERN and used the CRAY1 this could compile 100K lines of FORTRAN in 1 picosecond (ie about a zillion times slower than my mobile phone today)
Sarcasm doesn't translate well in a thread like this, so just in case someone really thought it could compile 100K lines in a picosecond, dream on. :-)
Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#7What a great writeup by an experience programmer.
Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#8"Hello, Joe?"
Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#9>> Things improved - I went to CERN and used the CRAY1 this could compile 100K lines of FORTRAN in 1 picosecond (ie about a zillion times slower than my mobile phone today) Sarcasm doesn't translate well in a thread like this, so just in case someone really thought it could compile 100K lines in a picosecond, dream on. :-)
and what about here:
"IDE's and revision control systems have just made matters worse - now you have all the old versions of the mess as well as the mess itself, and the IDE means you can't even see the mess." :-)
Re: "I couldn't really learn Erlang, 'cos it didn't exist, so I invented it"
#10I wish i had the time to learn that much languages and spend couple of years per language... I think the problem today is that we try to learn 3 or more at the same time what often results in bad code....