Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I notice my pace has yet again slowed between the last chapter of the book - Erlang - and this one. Another five months has passed since I finished the chapter on Erlang! In actual fact, I haven't been slaving away on the next language that whole time - decompression of sorts has to follow each chapter, and dealing with a manic three-year-old, finding some time for a bit of exercise and trying to…
Well, well, well. One virtual "week" later, but two real world months later, I have finished the chapter on Erlang from Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. Based on the Git repository where I am recording my coding efforts through the book, I've been working at it for almost 11 months, which is slightly disappointing, but I have noticed during the chapter on Erlang a subtle shift in how my brain is…
Yet another instalment in my journey through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - this time on Scala. The iteration period has gone down significantly to almost an actual week, so that's some marked improvement on previous chapters!
I would say that I haven't even really used Java seriously - what little I did in my university time I've forgotten, and I don't believe I was ever competent in the…
Yet another installment in my journey through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. At this stage it is so far off seven weeks, it's definitely going to be more than seven months, and I'm just hoping it won't take seven years! But it is enjoyable nonetheless - if a little painful.
This time, I've just completed the chapter on Prolog. The previous chapter, which I found reasonably painful as well (but for different reasons) was Io. In the meantime, I've been doing a lot more work in another prototype-based language - JavaScript - and grown accustomed to the paradigm somewhat. For all its flaws (perceived or otherwise), I find JavaScript much easier to work with than Io, although I have to admit the learning experience with Io was…
I've mentioned a couple of times that I started reading through Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, and even though I've recently been heavily sidetracked by Learning Go I just finished chapter two which dealt with Io.
The book gushes over the language, and I've read a lot of other people's blogs where they seem quite excited about it. In the end I couldn't finish the last exercise, even having a working example to go off. It was just a bit too painful trying to find the right object context, navigate around the strange method syntax and other oddities in the language. Of course, it would be wrong to blame the language, so I'm just going to leave it saying that Io didn't…