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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks By Bruce Tate - What An Adventure

Posted: January 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Io, Lisp, Prolog, Ruby, Scala

About two months ago, I started reading Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate . I went into the book with a significant understanding of only two programming Languages: ColdFusion and Javascript. Now, not only do I have a sense of how many programming languages there are out there (Tate's list of 7 was selected from over a hundred language... read more »

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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Io - Day 3

Posted: December 1, 2010 at 11:10 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Io

I just finished day 3 of the Io language in my Seven Langauges in Seven Weeks book . I don't have a lot of time to write today, but like day 2 , this homework was again both challenging and fun. The fact that you can override just about everything in the Io languages makes for a powerful set of features that can be leveraged to accomplish some p... read more »

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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Io - Day 2

Posted: November 30, 2010 at 10:51 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Io

I just finished day 2 of my Io language homework from Seven Languages in Seven Weeks . After the relative ease of day 1 , this set of homework problems was downright intense! I would estimate that the following problem set took me a good 4-5 hours to complete (and then another hour or so just to write up). And, I couldn't even solve the last one... read more »

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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Io - Day 1

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 9:18 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Io

With Ruby behind us , it's now time for Io - the next language in my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book by Bruce Tate . Io is a prototype based language like Javascript; however, unlike Javascript, Io has no sense of classes that can be instantiated (I don't want to get into a debate as to whether or not Javascript actually has "classes"). Rath... read more »

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