From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T12:47:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Backgrounds before Ruby (was Re: Not a question, not really news either)

SonOfLilit wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Well ... a couple of reasons:

1. I already know 1.5 perfectly good functional languages, Lisp/Scheme
2. I'm learning Erlang, also a functional language, and Erlang's
concurrency strikes me as more useful than the goodies that Haskell and
OCaml have tacked on to the functional paradigm.
3. Only a few applications are written in Haskell and OCaml, and when I
write an application, I usually chose a language as well suited to the
domain as possible.

I just got the Programming Erlang book yesterday, too. :)