jedws

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   by jedws 14y ago

   > Whenever somebody quotes growth numbers instead of absolute numbers, they are trying to hide something. No, it is the data you asked us to look at and it refutes your claim that "they are as insignificant today as they were five years
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   by jedws 14y ago

   The datas do not match your assertions: http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=scala&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=clojure&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=haskell&l=
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   by jedws 14y ago

   > foreach is insanely slow no, in 2.9 using a 1 to 10 generator and a foreach was slower than using one using primitives due to the boxing. This is fixed in trunk. > gets up in arms at the idea of a 'for' statement in the language S
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   The Future of Programming(pchiusano.blogspot.com)

   21 points by jedws 15y ago|5 comments
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   by jedws 15y ago

   The presentation is worth reading. Scala is an awesome language whose main disadvantage is that it is a language for smart people. http://www.paulgraham.com/vanlfsp.html
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   by jedws 15y ago

   Being in Aus we don't get to see many live and rely on the videos being made available. Of those I particularly liked Daniel Spiewak's "Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures" and Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy". We were fortunate