http://dubdubdub.co.uk random musings from a twisted mind Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:56:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dubdubdub.co.uk/2007/10/node-613 http://dubdubdub.co.uk/2007/10/node-613#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:07:27 +0000 mike 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 --- Continue reading →]]> http://dubdubdub.co.uk/2007/10/node-613/feed 0