Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages

How about C# vs F#? Both have great support. You'd think if people were 2x-3x more productive in a functional language, you'd get a lot of developers moving from C# to F# because both have excellent support from Microsoft.

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Post by gexla » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 2:40 PM UTC

Poor PHP. It just keeps getting dumped on.

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Post by tdsamardzhiev » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 2:46 PM UTC

Pretty accurate, I'd say.

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Post by raverbashing » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 2:46 PM UTC

Decorators are more than simple syntactic sugar in Python ;)

It seems overly critical, but still funny (the Haskell one is probably the most spot on)

And after all, Facebook uses PHP and MySql

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Post by amirmc » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 2:54 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #8

Decorators are more than simple syntactic sugar in Python ;) It seems overly critical, but still funny (the Haskell one is probably the most spot on) And after all, Facebook uses PHP and MySql

Sure, FB uses PHP but it's also very interesting to see how they've created things like Hack and Flow (built using OCaml, iirc) to improve the quality of their code.

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Post by coldtea » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 2:55 PM UTC

He wanted to make a cheap joke, but PHP should be the opposite: productivity is rather high, while self-assesment is low.