I've been skimming around the book. ?I think a better title would have been "Seven languages and how they're not quite as magical as Ruby". ?If you don't think Java is terrible, the author going out of his way to tell you how terrible Java is, and "static" languages in general, might come off as a little abrasive, or at least, a little slanted.
Not exaggerating. ?Ruby is the magical Mary Poppins to Java's big brother lawyer who "sucks the fun out of everything in 100-mile radius". ?That is what the author says. ?I feel like if you're going to write a book about different languages you should find somebody who's a little less partial. ?It feels like a vegetarian writing a cook book. ?Guess what's not for dinner.
If you mentally compensate for that, there's some OK content, but I haven't read all that much yet, so we'll see how it goes. ?I wanted to skip around a bit and start with?Erlang, but it actually says "we've already seen X, Y, and Z with Io and Prolog, so...". ?You kind of need to read it in order, although its not the end of the world, especially if you've seen some of it previously.
The selection of languages is ineresting, so if you don't feel like paying for the book, doing some personal research would be useful.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Kevin
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This is something I'd like to do a meetup about. ?My goal for last year was diving into Scala. ?Its still on the list for 2011. ?Its a tough approach. ?I thought I was coming along, but went to a Scala meetup recently and most of it was over my head. ?I will admit not dedicating enough time to it, though. ?A lesson style meetup that did it as a group would be interesting.
Don't know about Clojure. ?Hated Lisp/Scheme in college. ?Blah. ?Before I get some blowback, I understand that's not a universal opinion ;) ?I personally never made the mental jump, but by that point I'd been writing C/Java for a few years, so I think I was tainted. ?Wrote some gimp plugin code a few years back. ?I think that was the only post-college Scheme I've ever seen.
In any case, will pick up the book for the subway list.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Michael Mellinger
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Has anyone read this book? ?Opinions?
http://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks
I think one of my goals in 2011 is to pick a few languages and do a deep dive. ?Haskell, Go, and Scala are probably my top choices.
-Mike
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