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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
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: Erlang - Day 3
Posted: December 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM by Ben Nadel
I just sort of finished day 3 of Erlang from my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book . I hesitate to say "finished" because I only answered one of the homework problems; but, being that this day was all about concurrency, I actually view the one homework problem as a victory! And, given the fact that the first concurrency problem took me about thr... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Erlang - Day 2
Posted: December 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM by Ben Nadel
I just finished day 2 of Erlang from my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book . This day talked a lot about lists and about the functionality that Erlang provides for accessing and mutating lists. Apparently, list mapping (mapping one list onto another list) is so foundational to the language that there is even a special syntax, known as a "list co... read more »
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Seven Languages In Seven Weeks: Erlang - Day 1
Posted: December 20, 2010 at 10:09 AM by Ben Nadel
I just started the Erlang chapter of my Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book by Bruce Tate . Erlang is a functional language; that is, it relies heavily on functions and the concept of immutable state. In an object oriented language, we typically have objects that change state over time. In a functional language, we have data types that remain sta... read more »
