Archive for the tag 'Programming'

May 12 2008

Failure to Adapt Considered Harmful…

Published by David HM Spector under IT Industry, Misc, Programming

Gustavo Duarte, a programmer and blogger in Colorado wrote a very provocative article recently entitled Language Dabbling Considered Harmful where he reasons on why working, professional programmers should, more or less, stick to the languages where they have been successful and not try to get involved with new languages that come around:

Learning new programming languages [...]

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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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