First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell
Mohamed Sanaulla | My Blog | Author of Java 9 Cookbook | Java 11 Cookbook
First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell
First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell
Mohamed Sanaulla | My Blog | Author of Java 9 Cookbook | Java 11 Cookbook
First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell
Bruce Tate wrote:Mohamed Sanaulla, I agree. But I also think professionals need to learn new languages, whether they will use them in production or not. Just as a second spoken language can expand the way you think, a second programming language can change the way you approach programming. Working through this book has changed the way I write my Ruby code significantly.
Mohamed Sanaulla | My Blog | Author of Java 9 Cookbook | Java 11 Cookbook
Paul Clapham wrote:Well, when I learned XSLT I found I didn't have a problem with functional programming. But I'm going to have to find a personal project where Erlang is going to be useful. I don't want to just run through the examples, although I know that doing that might spark some ideas. It might take a while.
First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell
John Todd wrote:Hi Mr. Bruce,
The dedication of your book is really touching and emotional, Lynda Lyle Tate is an amazing woman.
Every time I'm trying to dive into Scala I escape immediately, it looks to me to be very elaborated and over designed.
The typing system is so vast (trying to improve Java by injecting more static typing?).
What do you think of Scala language?
Personally my #1 language is Clojure.
Your book looks amazing (as all of your books), thanks for your time and effort.
First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell
Bruce Tate wrote:
John Todd wrote:Hi Mr. Bruce,
The dedication of your book is really touching and emotional, Lynda Lyle Tate is an amazing woman.
Oh, and thanks for the kind words. Writing that dedication was a cleansing experience for me, and meant a great deal to my family. Thanks for noticing.
First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell
Michael Bedward wrote:Many thanks for the book Bruce. I confess I was dubious about the concept when I first heard about it via pragprog, but then I got my copy and all doubts went out the window. Working through the book in my spare time I'll probably take seven months rather than seven weeks, but that's fine since I'm a s-l-o-w learner.
I'm presently working on a small scripting language for raster image processing. The book is very helpful this context: the explanations and contrasts of the languages being the perfect antidote to tunnel vision in design and implementation.
Great to see Prolog in there ! I'm looking forward to reacquainting myself with it after a very long break. And Io looks like it will be great fun - I love little languages.
Thanks again and cheers,
Michael
First rule of Kayak: When in doubt, paddle like Hell