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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: Scala - Day 3

Posted: December 17, 2010 at 10:20 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Scala

I just finished day 3 of Scala from Seven Languages in Seven Weeks . Today was a tough day for me because it focused mostly on the concept on concurrency. ColdFusion, my language of choice, has threading in the form of CFThread; but, I am getting the feeling that "threading" and "concurrency" are two very different beasts. Threading seems to cent... read more »

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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Scala - Day 2

Posted: December 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Scala

I just finished day 2 of Scala from my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book by Bruce Tate . While feeling the pain of syntax rules that are beyond my current understanding, Scala is proving to be a fun language. And, after several people have questioned my style (perhaps rightly so), I have really made it a point to start going with the flow and e... read more »

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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Scala - Day 1

Posted: December 14, 2010 at 10:12 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: Scala

After just barely surviving Prolog , it's time for the Scala chapter in my Seven Langauges in Seven Weeks book by Bruce Tate . Coming from a ColdFusion background, it's comforting to know that Scala runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) in the same way that ColdFusion does; and, just as with ColdFusion, Scala has access to all of the core Java ... read more »

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