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Re: gEDA-user: interesting links



On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:01 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> Early code in a predecessor to gnucap was written ratfor, later
>> converted to C, still later converted to C++.  I made the
>> transition to C at the best time.  I waited too long to make
>> the transition to C++.
>
> <troll>
> May I humbly make a suggestion that you forget about C++ because
> like Java, its already old hat, bypass the current hot language
> like Python and Ruby because you are behind the trend on those
> and jump straight to the future of programming languages by
> learning Ocaml [0] and/or Haskell [1].
> </troll>
>
> For prespective, I have a couple of well know FLOSS libraries
> written in C, do most of my daytime paid coding in C++ (which I
> consider an abomination), have been using Ocaml for much of my
> own stuff for about 3 years now, and I am gradually getting
> Ocaml into my workplace which is working out really well.

   FORTH FORTH FORTH!!

    B-)

        -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007





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