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| | | | | In 1994, I learnt Perl. It was fantastic. I used it to: In 2006, I was convinced I should stick to Perl over Python. In 2008, Google launched AppEngine and it provided free hosting (which was a big deal!) but had only 2 runtimes: Java and Python. The choice was clear. I'd rather learn Python ... Perl, 1994-2011 Read More ยป | |
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| | | | | Clojure is a dynamically, strongly typed programming language. It's a dialect of _Lisp_ running on the Java Virtual Machine. Lisp is 6 decades old and has a really weird syntax. That weird syntax is called _Polish prefix notation_. Basically, in every other language you've used math operators like plus or minus are infix. It means they are placed between operands. For example, `1 + 2`. In Clojure, you always put the operator (or any other function for that matter) in front. So simple addition becomes... `+ 1 2`. | |
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| | | | | Declarative languages failure Approach that in my eyes failed, again and again, is to start with your own declarative language and then with time grow the language. (SQL being among notable exceptions) Puppet is the best example. map and each, added in Puppet 4.0.0 are, in my opinion, just two in a sea of evidence... | |
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