25 Dec
2019
25 Dec
'19
4:02 p.m.
On 24/12/2019, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:28:12AM -0500, Toby Thain
wrote:
As usual, Larry, YMMV. Erlang/OTP is heavily used in telecoms back-end.
N.
On 2019-12-23 6:27 p.m., Nemo Nusquam wrote:
As a systems guy who likes to get all the perf he can out of the machine,
those are not what I'd reach for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. I still like C, it's
what I reach for first. Go might be second. A recent thread makes me wonder which languages
would people like to
learn??? (I confess to trying, as Dave does, but time prevents anything
more that learing syntax and writing toy programmes.?? One must write
something substantial -- not synonomous with large -- to really learn a
language.)
Erlang, Smalltalk, Prolog, Haskell, and Scheme come to mind...
You have GREAT taste, and that covers the major paradigms.