Re: Styles of programming and How We Think

Snob? Well, I prefer the word gourmet :)

All this makes you search harder. There're LOTS of programming languages in the world nowadays. Once you've learnt one to earn your living, you can investigate even rare ones.

I actually tried Java, Python and Ruby. I could not manage to like them. Ruby was a huge dissapointment, quite unexpectedly :( Then I stumbled upon Pike and it turned out to be the very subtle balance between elegance and power I am fond of. And when I feel like fiddling with functional programming (you said 'lambdas', I heard), I use Ocaml. These are hobbies, I enjoy them and don't try to make money from it.

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Re^2: Styles of programming and How We Think by Anonymous Monk on Oct 22, 2004 at 14:13 UTC
Question: what did you find disappointing about Ruby (other than say, no CPAN)? I am considering learning either Haskell or OCaml myself. Not sure if I understand why I should go one way or the other. We'll see. Lisp is fun, but it's rather fragmented, same with Scheme ... hence the feeling that I need to go somewhere else for esoteric-weirdness. "These are hobbies, I enjoy them and don't try to make money from it." ... Yep. Definitely. That's what makes it FUN.	[reply]
Re^2: Styles of programming and How We Think by riffraff (Pilgrim) on Oct 22, 2004 at 22:56 UTC
Yes, me too. I tried java once, didn't like it. Ruby seems okay, and I guess Python is, but I really don't like languages where whitespace is significant. I tried Pike too, and it became my new favorite language. I use it for nearly everything now, the way most people use perl.	[reply]