cutler

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by cutler 10y ago
Whatever Scala devotees may believe, I think FP and OOP are irreconcilable opposites which means if you really get into FP you're going to hate doing what the industry demands of you in your day job, ie. OOP. Maybe FP will one day beco
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by cutler 10y ago
That's not practical when you have a massive images directory. A decent framework should have the equivalent of Jekyll's keep_files:
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by cutler 10y ago
As far as jobs are concerned you can't go wrong with PHP. Clojure jobs are virtually non-existent outside London and even in London Clojure they are scarce. As far as Indeed.co.uk goes even Rails is pretty thin on the ground outside th
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by cutler 10y ago
I gave up on Middleman when I couldn't get anyone in various Ruby mailing lists and IRC channels to advise me how to stop Middleman deleting directories which aren't mirrored in the src directory. Jekyll has the keep_files: [] con
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by cutler 10y ago
Just use Elixir/Erlang and all these problems vanish.
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by cutler 10y ago
One advantage of starting with Rails is that you can progress to JRuby on Rails when scaling is required. From there you can factor out services to Clojure or Scala without rewriting everything. So I'd say Rails has much more to offer
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by cutler 10y ago
He also said in a recent podcast that Ruby 3 will likely take 2 to 3 years to complete so don't bet the future on it.
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by cutler 11y ago
Can you elaborate on this OOP for big code bases argument as I've seen it wheeled out in defence of Java and PHP5 many times but I just don't buy it. Often classes in OOP languages are used not for instantiating objects, which I w
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by cutler 11y ago
I meant not useful in terms of gauging the output of the Elixir community.
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by cutler 11y ago
Three or four job postings a week? For London? That's encouraging.
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by cutler 11y ago
The problem with hex.pm is that it doesn't distinguish Elixir and Erlang packages so the total is a mixture of both which is not very useful.
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by cutler 11y ago
I don't know about where you live but in the UK job market, as measured by Indeed.co.uk, PHP:Rails is 13:1 with only 158 Rails jobs in total, 2/3 of which are in London. That's hardly "one of the most in demand". I
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by cutler 11y ago
I'm not sure about that. Search Indeed.co.uk's API (which removes duplicates) for - "Ruby" title:(Rails or RoR) - and you'll find 101 jobs listed in London. Repeat the search for United Kingdom and there are only 15
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by cutler 11y ago
Or you can use Hy ( http://hylang.org ) and write Python in Lisp syntax.
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by cutler 11y ago
Lambdas are anonymous functions so an inner def is not the same thing. The fact that you have to "adapt" Python to get non-crippled lambdas suggests it should have been the last choice for teaching a text like SICP.
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by cutler 11y ago
There's always Clojure. Best of both worlds, i.e. Scheme-ish with Java host. We had a SICP Clojure group here in London last year and I think someone has written an adaptation of SICP in Clojure. If it was any other text I'd have
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by cutler 11y ago
Given Python's limited lambda implementation and Guido's distaste for FP I find it odd that Python should be chosen to teach SICP let alone replace Scheme as a teaching language.
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by cutler 12y ago
Case in point, with the countdown to Perl 6 now on the cause seems hopeless: Perl 5.20 / 19Mb Apache log file / time: 1 sec perl -wnl -E 'say $1 if /\b(\w{5})\b/' logs.txt Perl 6 (MoarVM 2015.02) / 19Mb Ap