Archive for the 'Ruby/Rails' Category

Apr 30 2008

Unlimited CPU Power, Endless Memory and Syntactic Sugar, or “How I Learned to Stop Obsessing and Love Scripting Languages” (*)

Published by David HM Spector under C/C++, Java, OS X, Programming, Ruby/Rails

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 Apologies to Stanley Kubric and Dr. Strangelove.
This is sort of like an intro to some 12-step program..
Hi, I’m David, and I’ve been a computer language bigot.
There. I feel better already.
But seriously, I’ve been a programmer for a long, long time. Not quite as long as my friends Richard, Pete, and Bill [...]

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Jan 04 2008

Ruby on Rails == Tulip Mania?

Published by David HM Spector under Ruby/Rails

I know how to program in a bunch of languages… some really, really old, like Algol-68, PL/1, Pascal, Modula-2 and MC680×0 Assembly Language. Some as mainstream as you can get, like C, Objective-C, Java, Perl and PHP. I’m a Unix guy so I also know several “shell” languages found in things like the [...]

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