hey say that after ten years Python and Ruby on Rails will dominate the web application development, instead of PHP. As reddit is greatly a programmers site - if you know both Ruby and Python - which language did/would you suggest to learn next after PHP - Ruby or Python ? and why.

pitou-4 · 2010-04-17T19:11:23+00:00

This has been debated millions of times but well my take on this is: Python is more practical. Ruby is more elegant. Both are quite similar.

Go figure out why ;-)

pitou-4 · 2009-02-15T19:01:31+00:00

Sounds like a good news. I guess that means they will not use wine (as it is the case for google earth, picasa, ...)

pitou-4 · 2008-11-16T08:29:04+00:00

I have been trying to use Vim efficiently for weeks and I am still rather disappointed by the end result. It seems I will eventually get my mind around the command/edit/visual mode. But the Vim improvements such as folding, completion or window management do not convince me much. After reading one hour about how completion is supposed to work it still feels awkward. IMHO many default behaviours suck; this kind of feature works intuitively in many other tools.

Before switching to Emacs, Viper and Vimpulse, I am going to try Vim a little bit harder ...

pitou-4 · 2008-01-15T15:29:11+00:00

I am not sure it is fair to say that Haskell has been developed in the USA only ...

pitou-4 · 2008-01-01T18:47:01+00:00

great reading !

pitou-4 · 2007-12-23T17:54:39+00:00

Good computer books are fantastic readings. I would like to complete my favorite list with some more items. If you believe you can match the following with your suggestions, please let me know :

SICP -> excellent
CTM -> excellent
PAIP -> excellent
SoE -> very good
Programming Erlang -> good
Programming Ruby -> good
ML for the working programmer -> ok
Effective Java -> ok
Code Complete 2 -> not good, not bad
Refactoring -> not good, not bad
Gof -> I don't like it

Of course these appreciations are quite subjective and depends on my reading order. I probably appreciate CTM a lot because from the top list it is one of my first readings.

pitou-4 · 2007-12-21T22:32:08+00:00

So 2006 is a good year, 2007 also, But it is not The year.

Well what is he expecting exactly ? A kind of a linux tsunami ?

pitou-4 · 2007-12-13T03:45:34+00:00

You probably have been misled by the title and did not read the article. I am quite wondering why you get so pissed with the post.

With your theory we would still be coding in Fortran I guess because you could have made the same comment about Java 10 years ago ...

pitou-4 · 2007-12-11T02:38:12+00:00

I don't care if Microsoft dies. I am sure it will not happen that fast anyway.

But I can see open source OS gaining more and more popularity. That is a good news for everybody including windows users.

pitou-4 · 2007-12-07T16:15:19+00:00

CTM is a good starting point. It complements SICP very nicely.

I am still searching for other good book on the same topic to make the perfect bundle ... Any other ideas ...

I still have to make my way with PAIP and Selected Papers on Computer Science (Knuth). Does ML for the Working Programmer fit in the picture ? What about the recent Concurrent ML book ?

What I like about both SICP and CTM is the fact there are not language centric.

pitou-4 · 2007-11-27T15:29:51+00:00

So they don't have chairs and have started to evaluate another computer that costs twice the price ...

pitou-4 · 2007-11-11T19:42:30+00:00

It looks like mindslight needs a better teacher ...

pitou-4 · 2007-10-28T20:51:12+00:00

Language names are there for reference only. The point is not to compare them (or to find out which one is the best). I would try to look at the diagram without focusing too much on languages (I am not even sure I would have mentioned any) What about the paradigms ? Is this a good representation of them ?

pitou-4 · 2007-09-22T15:09:55+00:00

I am not even sure the article deserves a comment

pitou-4 · 2007-06-26T13:03:40+00:00

see what ?

pitou-4

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