From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T00:40:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Backgrounds before Ruby (was Re: Not a question, not really news either)

On 7/17/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Sharon Phillips wrote:
> But at home, I've pretty much abandoned Perl for Ruby, and do hard core
> numerical work in R. The other language I do a lot of is Lisp/Scheme,
> because of its usage in algorithmic composition and synthesis of music.
> A strong number four is Forth. I do almost no programming in C or Java
> and none in any BASIC, Pascal, C++, Python, PHP, or Lua. About the only
> one out of that list that appeals to me is Lua, and I'm also learning
> Erlang. I have no desire to get into Haskell or OCaml.

I wonder, why aren't you interested in Haskell and OCaml?


Aur