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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a> |
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p> |
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<h1 class="post-title">Seven Languages in Seven Weeks</h1> |
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2019-07-16 |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a> |
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/bruce-a-tate/">#bruce a tate</a> |
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7912517-seven-languages-in-seven-weeks">GoodReads summary</a>: |
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You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The |
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Pragmatic Programmer. But if one per year is good, how about Seven Languages |
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in Seven Weeks? In this book you'll get a hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, |
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Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby. Whether or not your favorite language is |
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on that list, you'll broaden your perspective of programming by examining |
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these languages side-by-side. You'll learn something new from each, and best |
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of all, you'll learn how to learn a language quickly.</p> |
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<p>A couple of random thoughts about this book:</p> |
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<p>First off, you have the idea that, for each language the author would spend |
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one week (I'll not get into the fact that each "week" has 3 days only). This |
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is a great idea: How much of the concepts of a programming language can you |
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capture in just one week. Are the interfaces good? Are they simple and easy to |
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understand? The fact is, the author did not spend one week on each language. |
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In the Clojure chapter, he mentions that he got the idea after a month. So |
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instead of trying to capture the good and bad points in one week -- which, |
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again, it's a good thing, so one can understand how "ergonomic" a language is |
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-- the author decided the reader should only take one week per language.</p> |
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<p>Second, there is a huge about of "obvious", "obviously" and "simple". Sure, it |
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may seem obvious for the author, but most of the time, things are not obvious |
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for people who never saw anything related.</p> |
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<p>Not only there is an abuse of "obvious" things, sometimes the author seems to |
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either not understand some concepts of the language or tries to simplify an |
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explanation to the point it sounds wrong -- and I just realized that 'cause |
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I've read books about some of the languages.</p> |
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<p>And there are times when the author shows a piece of code, with something |
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completely new, and forgets to explain what that new thing means. I'm glad |
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I've read books about Clojure and Haskell before, otherwise I'd never |
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understand what the thing really was.</p> |
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<p>On the general, it's a book about seven languages. Instead of reading this |
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book, I'd suggest getting the list of languages and going after them in other |
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ways instead of reading this.</p> |
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