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

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Post by qwph » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 10:05 PM UTC

rincewind wrote: post #10

Smalltalk

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

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

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Post by streblo » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 10:37 PM UTC

does matlab count?

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

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Post by DaniFong » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 10:46 PM UTC

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?

My project, or Lisp Flavored Erlang?

Regardless, the answer (I believe) is, not at this time. But soon enough...

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

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Post by DavidSJ » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:01 PM UTC

larryfreeman wrote: post #21

php

I'm sorry.

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

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Post by brianmckenzie » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:27 PM UTC

Hates_ wrote: post #5

Objective C

Objective-C here, too. It's kinda cool because I get to re-learn C at the same time.

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

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Post by mxyzptlk » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:31 PM UTC

Hexstream wrote: post #59

fogus wrote: post #18

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No it does not... but this is my choice.

I'd say yes, because Scheme is a Lisp and I don't know any specific language that's called just Lisp except perhaps the original one by McCarthy. As far as I know Common Lisp and Scheme are the two Lisp languages in usage today.

along with emacs lisp.

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

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:42 PM UTC

PHP I'm an embedded systems programmer not a web guy, although I have done some simple CGI stuff. Under my belt: C, C++, C#, a number of assemblers, Python, Lisp, Prolog, Java, BASIC

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

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Post by hb » Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 12:10 AM UTC

C++

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

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Post by pivo » Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 12:45 AM UTC

DaniFong wrote: post #68

prakash wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WOW!

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.

Could you describe how records are broken in Erlang?

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

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Post by hsmyers » Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 1:14 AM UTC

Haskell or maybe Erlang.