Fad languages, last it was ruby (and rails) and now it’s erlang, previously it was python, and before that was java – each here to save the world and provide world peace – ok, so perhaps not the last one.

I like the idea of rails, the language is pretty nice too – but my goodness it’s slow – and i used to think java was bad (well it was – for totally different reasons). Interesting notes about the java community wanting closures, though it did take me a while to remember what they are! Though I never truly did grok the usage of lambda closures; which is probably a good thing really.

Ah, LPC – definitely the easiest way to learn an object orientated language – certainly makes things a lot more concrete for understanding – didn’t like C++ for probably the same reason – despite it being probably a little cleaner to use. Heh, be interesting to see what the next fad is —