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Re: Oh Camel!

009 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:06:20 -0000

I think you can learn scheme language,a functional programming language and the queen of programming languages .
Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms including imperative,functional,and message passing styles,find convenivent expression in Scheme.I am learning it.

Re: Oh Camel!

Mikey Cooper — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:06:41 -0000

I vote for you checking out Nemerle next. I didn't see much need for it over C#, but maybe you could explain it to me.

C# 3.0's type inference, from what I can tell, is strictly compile-time inference and doesn't do much other than save you a word of two of typing when declaring variables.

Re: Oh Camel!

Michel — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:43:27 -0000

Because Forth's best-known customers (Apple) is moving away from it? :)

The OCaml guy in my programming language class informed me that it lets you reuse C functions quite easily as well (better than JNI, certainly, which even Java programmers are abandoning), so seems like you made a good choice there.

Microsoft's starting to buy into FP, which is quite encouraging.. it might finally take off (C# 3.0 will have anonymous functions and type inferencing; C-omega, the research language, also has this cool idea called streams. Both still do not optimize tail calls, alas).

Re: Oh Camel!

Joey — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:22:40 -0000

What about FORTH man? ;)